savour
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English [edit]
Alternative forms [edit]
- savor (chiefly US)
Pronunciation [edit]
- Rhymes: -eɪvə(r)
Noun [edit]
savour (plural savours)
- 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.
- 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 5
- a distinctive sensation
Verb [edit]
savour (third-person singular simple present savours, present participle savouring, simple past and past participle savoured)
- (intransitive) to possess a particular taste or smell, or a distinctive quality
- (transitive) to appreciate, enjoy or relish something
Translations [edit]
savour — see savor
Old French [edit]
Etymology [edit]
Latin sapor with a consonant change
Noun [edit]
savour m (oblique plural savours, nominative singular savours, nominative plural savour)
Quotations [edit]
- For usage examples of this term, see the citations page.