Word forms: flavors, flavoring, flavoredregional note: in BRIT, use flavour
1. variable noun
The flavor of a food or drink is its taste.
I always add some paprika for extra flavor.
Synonyms: taste, seasoning, flavouring, savour More Synonyms of flavor
2. countable noun
If something is orange flavor or beef flavor, it is made to taste of orange or beef.
It has an orange flavor and smooth texture.
3. transitive verb
If you flavor food or drink, you add something to it to give it a particular taste.
Lime preserved in salt is a North African specialty which is used to flavor chickendishes.
Synonyms: season, spice, add flavour to, enrich More Synonyms of flavor
More Synonyms of flavor
flavor in American English
(ˈfleɪvər)
noun
1. Archaic
an odor; smell; aroma
2.
a.
that quality of a substance that is a mixing of its characteristic taste and smell
b.
taste in general
a soup lacking flavor
3.
any substance added to a food, medicine, etc. to give it a particular taste; flavoring
4.
the characteristic quality of something; distinctive nature
the flavor of the city
5. Particle Physics
any of the six basic types of quarks or leptons
down quark, up quark, charmed quark, strange quark, top quark, and bottom quark are the names used by physicists to distinguish the six types
verb transitive
6.
to give flavor to
Derived forms
flavorless (ˈflavorless)
adjective
Word origin
ME flavour, an odor, altered (by analogy with savour, savor) < OFr flaur < VL *flator, odor < L flatare, to blow, freq. of flare, blow (see blast), prob. infl. by foetor, foul odor
Examples of 'flavor' in a sentence
flavor
"Whether it was nonsense or not, the story lent some flavor to this banal adventure.