flavor

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   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. 2
   noun

   Flavoring, a substance used to produce a taste.

   Flavor was added to the pudding.

3. 3
   noun

   A variety (of taste) attributed to an object (food, candy, chewing gum, medicine, etc).

   What flavor of bubble gum do you most enjoy?

4. 4
   noun

   The characteristic quality of something.

   the flavor of an experience

5. 5
   noun

   A kind or type.

   Debian is one flavor of the Linux operating system.

6. 6
   noun

   Style.

   Who brings the flavor? / That's me, that's me / Who brings the flavor? / That's me. I got it

7. 7
   noun

   The quality produced by the sensation of smell; odour; fragrance.

   the flavor of a rose

8. 8
   noun

   the taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- Proto-Indo-European *-eh₁- Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁-der. Proto-Italic *flāōder. Latin flō Proto-Indo-European *-tōr Proto-Italic *-tōr Latin -tor Latin flātor Vulgar Latin *flātorder. Old French flaorbor. Middle English savourinflu. Middle English flavour English flavor 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,…