flavor
Pronunciation: /ˈfleɪvə/
The English word “flavor” has 9 meanings listed here.
noun
- The quality produced by the sensation of taste or, especially, of taste and smell in combined effect.
- Flavoring, a substance used to produce a taste.
- A variety (of taste) attributed to an object (food, candy, chewing gum, medicine, etc).
- The characteristic quality of something.
- A kind or type.
- Style.
- One of the six types of quarks (top, bottom, strange, charmed, up, and down) or three types of leptons (electron, muon, and tauon).
- The quality produced by the sensation of smell; odour; fragrance.
verb
Etymology
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…
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