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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishflavour meaning “smell, odour”, usually pleasing, borrowed fromOld Frenchflaour(“smell, odour”) (cfr.Sicilianciàguru, its etymology and semantic), fromVulgar Latin*flātor(“odour, that which blows”), fromLatinflātor(“blower”), fromflō, flāre(“to blow, puff”), ultimately fromProto-Indo-European*bʰleh₁-(“to blow”), fromProto-Indo-European*bʰel-(“to make a loud noise”).Doublet ofblow andbleat.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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flavor (countable anduncountable,pluralflavors)(American spelling)

  1. The quality produced by the sensation oftaste or, especially, oftaste andsmell in combinedeffect.
    Theflavor of this apple pie is delicious.
  2. Flavoring, a substance used to produce a taste.
    Flavor was added to the pudding.
  3. Avariety (of taste) attributed to an object.
    Whatflavor of bubble gum do you enjoy?
  4. The characteristic quality of something.
    theflavor of an experience
    • 1983 December 10, Mike Riegle, “Sexual Politics of "Crime": Inside and Out”, inGay Community News, volume11, number21, page 5:
      I'd like to read from a pair of letters that we got recently atGCN to give you theflavor of the issues gay prisoners have to deal with.
  5. (informal) A kind or type.
    Debian is oneflavor of the Linux operating system.
  6. (hip-hop slang)Style.
    • 1993, “Bring The Flavor”, inBlack Reign, performed byQueen Latifah:
      Who brings theflavor? / That's me, that's me / Who brings theflavor? / That's me. I got it
  7. (particle physics) One of the six types ofquarks (top,bottom,strange,charmed,up, anddown) or three types ofleptons (electron,muon, andtauon).
  8. (archaic) The quality produced by the sensation ofsmell;odour;fragrance.
    theflavor of a rose
    • 1859 December 13,Charles Dickens, “The Mortals in the House”, in Charles Dickens, editor,The Haunted House. The Extra Christmas Number ofAll the Year Round […], volume II, London: […] C[harles] Whiting, […],→OCLC,page 4:
      It was damp, it was not free from dry rot, there was aflavour of rats in it, and it was the gloomy victim of that indescribable decay which settles on all the work of man’s hands whenever it’s not turned to man’s account.

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Translations

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the quality produced by the sensation of taste
a substance used to produce a taste
a variety (of taste)
the characteristic quality of something
a type of something
in physics, the types of quarks or leptons
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Verb

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flavor (third-person singular simple presentflavors,present participleflavoring,simple past and past participleflavored)

  1. (American spelling, transitive) To addflavoring to something.

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Translations

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to add flavoring to something

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Middle English

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Noun

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flavor

  1. Alternative form offlavour
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