noun

1. Archaic an odor; smell; aroma
2. 1. that quality of a substance that is a mixing of its characteristic taste and smell
   2. taste in general a soup lacking flavor
3. any substance added to a food, medicine, etc. to give it a particular taste; flavoring
4. the characteristic quality of something; distinctive nature the flavor of the city
5. 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

Etymology: 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