Definition: Flavor
Etymology
From Middle English flavour (smell, odor, usually pleasing), borrowed from Old French flaour (smell, odor), from Vulgar Latin *flÄtor (odor, that which blows), from Latin flÄtor (blower), from flÅ, flÄre (to blow, puff), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bÊ°lehâ‚- (to blow), from Proto-Indo-European *bÊ°el- (to make a loud noise). Doublet of blow and bleat.
Noun
flavor (countable and uncountable, plural flavors)
- The quality produced by the sensation of taste or, especially, of taste and smell in combined effect.
- The flavor of this apple pie is delicious.
- Flavoring, a substance used to produce a taste.
- Flavor was added to the pudding.
- A variety (of taste) attributed to an object.
- What flavor of bubble gum do you enjoy?
- The characteristic quality of something.
- Production music libraries in the 1950s all seemed to have a somewhat cartoon-like flavor.
- (particle physics) One of the six types of quarks (top, bottom, strange, charmed, up, and down) or three types of leptons (electron, muon, and tauon).
Derived terms
- flavorful
- flavoring
- flavorless
Verb
flavor (third-person singular simple present flavors, present participle flavoring, simple past and past participle flavored)
- To add flavoring to something.
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