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The definition of flavor is the taste of something, or a substance added to give taste.

(noun)

An example of a flavor is pistachio in ice cream.

Flavor is defined as to add a specific taste to something.

(verb)

An example of to flavor is to add chili powder to a stew.

See flavor in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

Archaic an odor; smell; aroma
1. that quality of a substance that is a mixing of its characteristic taste and smell
2. taste in general: a soup lacking flavor
any substance added to a food, medicine, etc. to give it a particular taste; flavoring
the characteristic quality of something; distinctive nature: the flavor of the city
Particle Physics any of the six basic types of quarks or leptons: down quark, up quark, charmed quark, strange quark, top quark, and bottom quark are the names used by physicists to distinguish the six types

Origin: ME flavour, an odor, altered (by analogy with savour, savor) < OFr flaur < VL *flator, odor < L flatare, to blow, freq. of flare, blow (see blast), prob. infl. by foetor, foul odor

transitive verb

to give flavor to

Related Forms:

flavorless adjective

See flavor in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

Distinctive taste; savor: a flavor of smoke in bacon. See Synonyms at taste.
A distinctive yet intangible quality felt to be characteristic of a given thing: “What matters in literature . . . is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or color of a particular human suffering” (Harold Bloom).
A flavoring: contains no artificial flavors.
Physics Any of six classifications of quark varieties (up, down, strange, charm, top, and bottom), distinguished by mass and electric charge.
Archaic Aroma; fragrance.