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flavor

/ˈfleɪvɚ/

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What does flavor mean?

noun

  1. The quality produced by the sensation of taste or, especially, of taste and smell in combined effect.
  2. Flavoring, a substance used to produce a taste.
  3. A variety (of taste) attributed to an object (food, candy, chewing gum, medicine, etc).
More meanings (6)

noun

  1. The characteristic quality of something.
  2. (figuratively, informal) A kind or type.
  3. (slang) Style.
  4. One of the six types of quarks (top, bottom, strange, charmed, up, and down) or three types of leptons (electron, muon, and tauon).
  5. (archaic) The quality produced by the sensation of smell; odour; fragrance.

verb

  1. To add flavoring to something.

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IPA pronunciation

/ˈfleɪvɚ/

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The fruits do not yield their true flavor to the purchaser of them, nor to him who raises them for the market.
Henry David ThoreauWalden, and On The Duty Of Civil DisobedienceProject Gutenberg ebook #205
They are without odor, and when chewed in the mouth, have a mild and not unpleasant astringency, but no other perceptible flavor.
Francis H. Leggett & Co.Tea LeavesProject Gutenberg ebook #3452
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It keeps all winter on the branches, if stored in a cellar, and is of fine flavor and especially good for preserves.
Bolton HallThree Acres and LibertyProject Gutenberg ebook #4509
Although the Bacchus is distinctively a wine grape, I have already said that its flavor, when fully ripe, was agreeable to me.
Edward Payson RoeThe Home AcreProject Gutenberg ebook #5418