flavor Definition

flavour
flavor
noun

1. A sensation perceived when eating or drinking which is a combination of taste and smell.

Thesaurus: taste, savouriness, tang, relish, smack, piquancy.
2. Any substance added to food, etc to give it a particular taste.
3. A characteristic quality or atmosphere.

Thesaurus: characteristic, character, quality, property, feel, essence, touch, style, tone, tinge.
4. physics.
An index which denotes different types of quark¹.

verb

flavoured, flavouring
1. To add something (usually to food) to give it a particular flavour or quality.

Thesaurus: season, spice, leaven, lace, imbue, infuse, taint, contaminate.

Derivative: flavourful
adj

(of food) having a good flavour
Thesaurus: delicious, tasty, savoury, palatable, toothsome; Antonym: insipid, tasteless.

Derivative: flavourless
adj

(of food) lacking flavour
Thesaurus: tasteless, bland, insipid, vapid, mawkish.

Derivative: flavourous
adj

Derivative: flavoursome
adj

Idiom: flavour of the week, month

The favourite person or thing for someone for a period of time, chosen on a whim

Etymology: originally used in the 1940s in the US to promote different flavours of ice cream. &clock; 14c: from French flaour.