# flavour

Pronunciation: UK say "FLAY-vuh" /ˈfleɪvə/; US say "FLAY-ver" /ˈfleɪvɚ/

## Noun

1. The quality something has for the sense of taste, especially when taste and smell combine to give a single impression.
   - Simple: How something tastes, especially the taste and the smell together.
   - _Slow roasting brings out the full flavour of the tomatoes._
   - _Strawberries picked in June have far more flavour than imported ones in winter._
2. Any of the particular tastes in which a product such as a food, sweet, chewing gum or medicine is made or sold.
   - Simple: One of the different tastes that a food, sweet or medicine can come in.
   - _The cough syrup comes in a cherry flavour that children don't seem to mind._
   - _The new range of crisps includes three limited-edition flavours._
3. The quality that is typical of something and gives an idea of what it is like.
   - Simple: The special quality or feeling that something has.
   - _The opening chapter gives a good flavour of the book's dry humour._
   - _The festival has a strongly Irish flavour, with live music in every pub._
5. A substance that is added to something, such as food or drink, to give it a particular taste.
   - Simple: Something added to food or drink to give it a certain taste.
   - _The packet says the biscuits contain no artificial colours or flavours._
   - _The yoghurt gets its taste from added strawberry flavour rather than real fruit._
6. A particular kind or type of something, among others of the same general sort. *(colloquial)*
   - Simple: One kind or type of something, among others of the same sort.
   - _The phone runs its own flavour of Android, with a few extra apps._
   - _Populism comes in left-wing and right-wing flavours._

## Verb

4. To give something a particular taste by adding a flavouring to it.
   - Simple: To give something a certain taste by adding something else to it.
   - _Flavour the sauce with a little smoked paprika before serving._
   - _The brewery flavoured its winter ale with ginger and cinnamon._

## Noun

7. The quality that something has for the sense of smell, such as the scent of a flower. *(archaic)*
   - Simple: The smell of something, often a pleasant one.

## Other meanings

- (noun) In particle physics, any of the six kinds of quark (up, down, strange, charm, top and bottom) or the six kinds of lepton (electron, muon and tau, and a neutrino matching each).
- (noun) In the slang of hip-hop, style, especially the personal manner a performer brings to their music or dancing.

## Origin

In Middle English, flavour meant a smell or odour, usually a pleasant one. English took it from Old French flaour ('smell, odour'), which goes back through Vulgar Latin *flātor ('odour, that which blows') to Latin flātor, 'blower', and the verb flō, flāre, 'to blow, puff'. That Latin verb may come from the Proto-Indo-European root *bʰleh₁- ('to blow'), the same root as English blow.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/flavour (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).