English Explanatory Dictionary

flavor

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The quality produced by the sensation of taste or, especially, of taste and smell in combined effect.
  2. Flavoring, a substance used to produce a taste.
  3. A variety (of taste) attributed to an object (food, candy, chewing gum, medicine, etc).
  4. The characteristic quality of something.
  5. A kind or type.
  6. Style.
  7. One of the six types of quarks (top, bottom, strange, charmed, up, and down) or three types of leptons (electron, muon, and tauon).
  8. The quality produced by the sensation of smell; odour; fragrance.
verb
  1. To add flavoring to something.

Pronunciation

/ˈfleɪvə/ /ˈfleɪvɚ/ en-us-flavour.ogg LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vininn126-flavor.wav /ˈflæɪvə/

Word forms

flavor flavors flavour flavoring flavored

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- Proto-Indo-European *-eh₁- Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁-der. Proto-Italic *flāōder. Latin flō Proto-Indo-European *-tōr Proto-Italic *-tōr Latin -tor Latin flātor Vulgar Latin *flātorder. Old French flaorbor. Middle English savourinflu. Middle English flavour English flavor From Middle English flavour meaning “smell, odour”, usually pleasing, borrowed from Old French flaour (“smell, odour”) (cfr. Sicilian ciàguru, its etymology and semantic), from Vulgar Latin *flātor (“odour, that which blows”), from Latin flātor (“blower”), from flō, flāre (“to blow, puff”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁- (“to blow”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to make a loud noise”). Doublet of blow and bleat.

Related words

gustatory gustation

Derived words

disflavor fat is flavor flavor burst flavordynamics flavored flavor enhancer flavorer flavor fatigue flavorful flavoring flavorist flavorize flavorless flavor of the month flavor of the road flavor of the week flavor saver flavorsome flavor text flavorwise flavorwood flavory off-flavor today's flavor flavor up overflavor

Translations

Afrikaans: smaak Albanian: shije Arabic: نَكْهَة Arabic: طَعْم Armenian: համ Bashkir: тәм Basque: zapore Belarusian: смак Belarusian: пры́смак Belarusian: арама́т Bulgarian: вкус Burmese: ရသ Catalan: gust Catalan: sabor Chinese Mandarin: 味道 Chinese Mandarin: 味兒 /味儿 Czech: příchuť Danish: smag Dutch: meug Dutch: smaak Finnish: maku French: goût French: saveur French: style Galician: sabor Galician: aroma Georgian: არომატი Georgian: გემო German: Geschmack German: Gust Hebrew: טַעַם Hindi: स्वाद Hindi: सुवास Hungarian: zamat Hungarian: aroma Icelandic: bragðefni Ingrian: maku Italian: sapore Italian: gusto Italian: tipo Italian: varietà Italian: genere Italian: specie Japanese: 味 Japanese: 風味 Japanese: 香味 Japanese: フレーバー Kalmyk: амтн Khmer: រសជាតិ Khmer: រស Korean: 향미 Korean: 풍미 Korean: 맛 Korean: 특징 Lao: ລົດຊາດ Latin: sapor Lithuanian: skonis Macedonian: вкус Malay: rasa Māori: namunamuā Māori: hā Māori: tāwara Māori: tāwhara Nepali: स्वाद Nepali: फ्लेबर Norwegian Bokmål: smak Norwegian Nynorsk: smak Occitan: gost Occitan: sabor Persian: طعم Persian: مزه
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