flavor
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English [edit]
Alternative forms [edit]
- (Commonwealth English) flavour (Flavour is the standard British spelling, and flavor the standard American spelling.)
Etymology [edit]
Middle English meaning "smell, odor", usually pleasing, from Old French flaour (“smell, odor”), from Vulgar Latin flator (“odor, that which blows”), from Latin flator (“blower”), from flare (“to blow, puff”)
Noun [edit]
flavor (plural flavors)
- The quality produced by the sensation of taste.
- The flavor of this apple pie is delicious.
- A substance used to produce a taste; flavoring.
- Flavor was added to the pudding.
- A variety of tastes attributed to an object.
- What flavor of bubble gum do you enjoy?
- The characteristic quality of something.
- the flavor of an experience
- (informal) A kind or type.
- Debian is one flavor of the Linux operating system.
- (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).
Translations [edit]
quality produced by the sensation of taste
substance used to produce a taste
variety of tastes attributed to an object
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See also [edit]
Flavor on Wikipedia.Wikipedia- Flavour (particle physics) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Flavour (particle physics)
Verb [edit]
flavor (third-person singular simple present flavors, present participle flavoring, simple past and past participle flavored)
- (transitive) To add flavoring to (something).
Translations [edit]
To add flavoring to something
