flavor
UK/ˈfleɪvə//ˈfleɪvɚ/
flavor noun: the quality produced by the sensation of taste or, especially, of taste and smell in combined effect.
Noun
flavor (countable and uncountable, plural flavors)
- 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.
- Flavoring, a substance used to produce a taste.
- Flavor was added to the pudding.
- A variety (of taste) attributed to an object (food, candy, chewing gum, medicine, etc).
- What flavor of bubble gum do you most enjoy?
- My favorite flavor of lip balm is called mystical minty camomile.
- The characteristic quality of something.
- the flavor of an experience
- I'd like to read from a pair of letters that we got recently at GCN to give you the flavor of the issues gay prisoners have to deal with.1983 December 10, Mike Riegle, “Sexual Politics of "Crime": Inside and Out”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 21, page 5
- A kind or type.
- Debian is one flavor of the Linux operating system.
- Style.
- Who brings the flavor? / That's me, that's me / Who brings the flavor? / That's me. I got it1993, “Bring The Flavor”, in Black Reign, performed by Queen Latifah
- One of the six types of quarks (top, bottom, strange, charmed, up, and down) or three types of leptons (electron, muon, and tauon).
- The quality produced by the sensation of smell; odour; fragrance.
- the flavor of a rose
- It was damp, it was not free from dry rot, there was a flavour 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.1859 December 13, Charles Dickens, “The Mortals in the House”, in Charles Dickens, editor, The Haunted House. The Extra Christmas Number of All the Year Round […], volume II, London: […] C[harles]...
Verb
flavor (third-person singular simple present flavors, present participle flavoring, simple past and past participle flavored)
- To add flavoring to something.
flavor meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Bengali and Nepali
flavor in Hindi
- the quality produced by the sensation of taste
- स्वाद svād, सुवास suvās
flavor in Tamil
- the quality produced by the sensation of taste
- சுவை cuvai
- a type of something
- வகை vakai
- a variety (of taste)
- சுவை cuvai
- the characteristic quality of something
- கூறு kūṟu, பண்பு paṇpu
flavor in Bengali
- গন্ধ, আস্বাদন, স্বাদ, স্বাদুতা, রস, খাদ্যাদির রুচিকর সুগন্ধ
flavor in Nepali
- the quality produced by the sensation of taste
- स्वाद svād, फ्लेबर phlebar
More languagesFewer languages
- flavor in Arabic
- نَكْهَة nakha, طَعْم ṭaʕm, بَهَار bahār
- flavor in Malay
- rasa, perisa
- flavor in Persian
- طعم ta'm, مزه maze, چاشنی čāšni
- flavor in Thai
- รสชาติ rót-châat, รส rót
- flavor in Vietnamese
- hương vị
- flavor in Myanmar
- ရသ ra.sa.
Examples of flavor in a sentence
- Pepper has a stronger flavor when it is ground straight from a mill.
- The admixture of vanilla extract in the dough improved the pastries' flavor.
- She decided the eggnog was lacking in flavor, so she decided to nutmeg it heavily.
Forms of flavor
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | flavors |
| alternative UK | flavour |
| alternative pronunciation-spelling | flavuh |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | flavors |
| present participle | flavoring |
| past participle | flavored |
| past | flavored |
Origin of 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, puff”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁- (“to blow”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to make a loud noise”). Doublet of blow and bleat.
Words formed from flavor
- flavor up
- overflavor
- disflavor
- fat is flavor
- flavor burst
- flavordynamics
- flavored
- flavor enhancer
- flavorer
- flavor fatigue
- flavorful
- flavoring
- flavorist
- flavorize
- flavorless
- flavor of the month
- flavor of the road
- flavor of the week
- flavor saver
- flavorsome
- flavor text
- flavorwise
- flavorwood
- flavory
- off-flavor
- today's flavor
Phrases with flavor
Words that rhyme with flavor
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Questions about flavor
- What does flavor mean?
- Flavor means the quality produced by the sensation of taste or, especially, of taste and smell in combined effect.
- What is flavor in Hindi?
- Flavor in Hindi is स्वाद (svād), सुवास (suvās). See Flavor meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is flavor?
- Flavor can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce flavor?
- Flavor is pronounced /ˈfleɪvə/ (UK).
- What is the plural of flavor?
- The plural of flavor is flavors.
Words near flavor in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: flavor (page history and authors); flavor (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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