savour

English

Alternative forms

• savor (chiefly US)

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪvə(r)

Noun

savour (plural savours)

1. the specific taste or smell of something.
   • 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 5

     He held out to me a bowl of steaming broth, that filled the room with a savour sweeter, ten thousand times, to me than every rose and lily of the world; yet would not let me drink it at a gulp, but made me sip it with a spoon like any baby.

2. a distinctive sensation

Verb

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

1. (intransitive) to possess a particular taste or smell, or a distinctive quality
2. (transitive) to appreciate, enjoy or relish something

Translations

savour — see savor

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Old French

Etymology

Latin sapor with a consonant change

Noun

savour m (oblique plural savours, nominative singular savours, nominative plural savour)

1. taste

Quotations

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