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flavour

[ fley-ver ]

noun

Chiefly British.


flavour

/ ˈڱɪə /

noun

  1. taste perceived in food or liquid in the mouth
  2. a substance added to food, etc, to impart a specific taste
  3. a distinctive quality or atmosphere; suggestion

    a poem with a Shakespearean flavour

  4. a type or variety

    various flavours of graphical interface

  5. physics a property of quarks that enables them to be differentiated into six types: up, down, strange, charm, bottom (or beauty), and top (or truth)
  6. flavour of the month
    a person or thing that is the most popular at a certain time
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

verb

  1. tr to impart a flavour, taste, or quality to
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Spelling Note

See -or 1.
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Derived Forms

  • ˈڱdzܰ, adjective
  • ˈڱdzܰ, noun
  • ˈڱdzܰdz, adjective
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of flavour1

C14: from Old French flaour , from Late Latin ڱٴǰ (unattested) bad smell, breath, from Latin ڱ to blow
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Example Sentences

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"They're very similar in design, colours, flavours and even price," she says.

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"Knafeh was the first flavour we perfected. The crunch, the pistachio, it had to be just right," she added.

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He acknowledges that carob "really doesn't taste like chocolate" but adds that Foreverland's fermentation and roasting process removes some of the carob flavour to get it closer to cocoa.

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Laura said combining British sweet indulgence with some Latin flavours proved so successful on her wedding day in November 2019 that she was not even able to sample her own cake.

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The soap is flavoured to taste like beans on toast, and is made out of cacao butter, organic oat flour, avocado oil and paprika as well as beans and toast flavouring.

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