flavor

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The taste of a particular food or drink.

   The flavor of this apple pie is delicious.

2. 2
   noun

   A particular type of taste, such as one of several available.

   What flavor of ice cream would you like?

3. 3
   noun

   A substance added to food to give it a taste.

   They added vanilla flavor to the pudding.

4. 4
   noun

   The special quality or character of something.

   The festival has a real flavor of the local culture.

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,…

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