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Flavor

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English

Variant spelling

  • flavour (British). flavor is the US spelling.

Noun

Flavor

  1. The quality produced by the sensation of taste.
    The flavor of this apple pie is delicious.
  2. A substance used to produce a taste. Flavoring .
    Flavor was added to the pudding.
  3. A variety of tastes attributed to an object.
    What flavor of bubble gum do you enjoy?
  4. The characteristic quality of something.
    the flavor of an experience
  5. A type of something
    His favorite flavor of
  6. In physics, a term used to name the six types of quarks (top, bottom, strange, charmed, top, and down) or three types of leptons (electron, muon, and tauon ).

Transitive verb

Flavor

  1. To add flavoring to something.

Derived terms

  • Flavoring

Latin

Etymology

flavere , to be yellow + -or

Noun

flavor f 3rd declension

  1. yellowness

Synonyms

  • flavitas

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