flavour
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
flavour /ˈfleɪvə(r)/ (US flavor)
▶noun
- 1 the distinctive taste of a food or drink.
■ chiefly N. Amer. a flavouring.
- 2 a distinctive quality or atmosphere: a European flavour.
■ an indication of the essential character of something: the extracts give a flavour of the conversation.
- 3 a kind, variety, or sort: various flavours of firewall are evolving.
- 4 Physics a quantized property of quarks with values designated up, down, charmed, strange, top, and bottom.
– phrases
flavour of the month a person or thing that is currently popular.
flavour of the month a person or thing that is currently popular.
– derivatives
flavoured adjective,
flavourful adjective,
flavourless adjective,
flavoursome adjective.
flavoured adjective,
flavourful adjective,
flavourless adjective,
flavoursome adjective.
– origin ME (in the sense ‘fragrance, aroma’): from OFr. flaor, perh. based on a blend of L. flatus ‘blowing’ and foetor ‘stench’; the -v- appears to have been introduced in ME by assoc. with savour.
'flavour' also found in these Oxford entries:
anchovy
- archaic
- bite
- bland
- body
- butterhead lettuce
- chayote
- cherry tomato
- condiment
- cubeb
- curry
- down
- flavouring
- foxy
- frangipane
- full-bodied
- fumet
- gamy
- garlic
- ginger
- hop
- infuse
- insipid
- Key lime
- lace
- lapsang souchong
- manzanilla
- marinade
- mawkish
- mellow
- mild
- mint
- monosodium glutamate
- muscadine
- mutton bird
- note
- oak
- off-dry
- palate
- paprika
- parsnip
- pear drop
- pepper
- Pilsner
- piquant
- pomelo
- puy lentil
- racy
- relish
