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savor of

savor of is the alternative form of savour of.

Meaning of savour of

Verb

savour of (third-person singular simple present savours of, present participle savouring of, simple past and past participle savoured of)

  1. (UK, transitive) To have a suggestion or trace of a quality or attribute.
    • In conclusion, it may savour of anticlimax to mention that from May 22 the famous "Sud Express," over the same route, has been covering the 359.7 miles from Paris Austerlitz to Bordeaux in 4 hr. 59 min. daily, at a start-to-stop average of 72.2 m.p.h., and that the northbound train has been taking...1955 June, 'Mercury', “Over 200 Miles Per Hour”, in Railway Magazine, page 380

Forms of savor of

third-person singular presentsavors of
present participlesavoring of
past participlesavored of
pastsavored of

Questions about savor of

What is savor of the alternative form of?
Savor of is the alternative form of savour of.

Words near savor of in the dictionary

  1. Savonian
  2. Savonians
  3. Savonnerie
  4. Savoonga
  5. savor
  6. savor of
  7. Savora
  8. Savoraic
  9. Savoraim
  10. savored
  11. savoredst

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Adapted from Wiktionary: savor of (page history and authors); savour of (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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