flavour

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Alternative spellings 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 Translations 1.4 Verb 1.4.1 Translations 1.5 Derived terms

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• Rhymes: -eɪvə(r)

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• (US) flavor

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flavour (plural flavours) (British, Canadian)

1. The quality produced by the sensation of taste.

   The flavour of this apple pie is delicious.

2. A substance used to produce a taste. Flavouring.

   Flavour was added to the pudding.

3. A variety of tastes attributed to an object.

   What flavour of bubble gum do you enjoy?

4. The characteristic quality of something.

   the flavour of an experience

5. (informal) A kind or type.

   Debian is one flavour of the Linux operating system.

6. In 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).

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to flavour (third-person singular simple present flavours, present participle flavouring, simple past and past participle flavoured)

1. (transitive) To add flavouring to something.

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• flavoured
• flavourful
• flavouring
• flavourless
• flavoursome