flavor
Pronunciation
  • (RP) IPA: /ˈfleɪvə/
  • (America) IPA: /ˈfleɪvɚ/
Noun

flavor (American spelling)

  1. 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.
  2. A substance used to produce a taste. Flavoring.
    Flavor was added to the pudding.
  3. A variety (of taste) attributed to an object.
    What flavor of bubble gum do you enjoy?
  4. The characteristic quality of something.
    the flavor of an experience
  5. (informal) A kind or type.
    Debian is one flavor of the Linux operating system.
  6. (physics) One of the six types of quarks (top, bottom, strange, charmed, up, and down) or three types of leptons (electron, muon, and tauon).
  7. (archaic) The quality produced by the sensation of smell; odour; fragrance.
    the flavor of a rose
Translations Translations Translations Translations
  • French: saveur
  • Portuguese: sabor
  • Russian: при́вкус
Translations
  • French: style
  • Russian: сорт
Translations Verb

flavor (flavors, present participle flavoring; past and past participle flavored)

  1. (American spelling, transitive) To add flavoring to something.
Translations


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