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Definition of Flavour
1. Verb. Lend flavor to. "Season the chicken breast after roasting it"
Category relationships: Cookery, Cooking, Preparation
Specialized synonyms: Sauce, Curry, Resinate, Spice, Spice Up, Zest, Savor, Savour, Salt
Causes: Savor, Savour, Taste
Derivative terms: Flavor, Flavorer, Flavoring, Flavourer, Flavouring, Seasoner, Seasoner, Seasoning, Seasoning
2. Noun. The general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people. "It had the smell of treason"
Generic synonyms: Ambiance, Ambience, Atmosphere
Specialized synonyms: Hollywood, Zeitgeist
Derivative terms: Feel, Feel, Feel, Look, Spirit, Spiritize
3. Noun. (physics) the six kinds of quarks.
Generic synonyms: Form, Kind, Sort, Variety
Specialized synonyms: Charm, Strangeness
Category relationships: High Energy Physics, High-energy Physics, Particle Physics
4. Noun. The taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth.
Generic synonyms: Gustatory Perception, Gustatory Sensation, Taste, Taste Perception, Taste Sensation
Specialized synonyms: Lemon, Vanilla
Derivative terms: Flavor, Flavorous, Flavourous, Nippy, Savor, Savor, Savour, Savour, Savour, Savoury, Savoury, Smack, Tangy
Definition of Flavour
1. Noun. The quality produced by the sensation of taste. ¹
2. Noun. A substance used to produce a taste. Flavouring. ¹
3. Noun. A variety of tastes attributed to an object. ¹
4. Noun. The characteristic quality of something. ¹
5. Noun. (informal) A kind or type. ¹
6. Noun. In physics, a term used to name the six types of quarks (top, bottom, strange, charmed, up, and down) or three types of leptons (electron, muon, and tauon). ¹
7. Verb. (transitive) To add flavouring to something. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Flavour
1. to flavor [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: flavor
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flavour
Literary usage of Flavour
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Fruits and Fruit Trees of America: Or, The Culture, Propagation, and by Andrew Jackson Downing, Charles Downing (1860)
"A fine old variety, of very rich flavour Fruit Mn:ill, roundish-oblong, ...
Fruit of medium size, oblong, hairy, flavour first rate ; branches drooping. ..."
2. The Retrospect of Practical Medicine and Surgery: Being a Half-yearly edited by William Braithwaite, James Braithwaite, Edmond Fauriel Trevelyan (1862)
"The messenger said he had been poisoned by drinking "almond flavour." I took at
once with me a bottle containing ipecacuanha powder. ..."
3. The Annual Register of World Events: A Review of the Year (1793)
"... nothing more efficacious, in giving wine a high flavour, than this ( powder.
... had a wine of no fine flavour, made of grapes which grow fox jackall, ..."
4. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke, Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress), John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) (1793)
"... in giving wine a high vour her ; but a little crab, which flavour, than this
powder. ... to the -vineyards ami and flavour far ..."
5. Southey's Common-place Book by Robert Southey, John Wood Warter (1855)
"The kernel or seed contains an oil of inferior quality and more rancid flavour :
it does not congeal and is chiefly used by the poor."—Ibid., vol. 2, p. ..."
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