"flavour" meaning in English

See flavour in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Audio: En-us-flavour.ogg [US] Forms: flavours [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} flavour (countable and uncountable, plural flavours)
  1. British standard spelling of flavor. Tags: countable, uncountable Synonyms: flavour, sapor [rare], smack, smake, smatch, taste Hypernyms: sensation Meronyms: bitter, meaty, salty, sour, sweet Related terms: race [obsolete]
    Sense id: en-flavour-en-noun-ZVM9E3J4 Categories (other): English links with manual fragments, English links with redundant alt parameters, English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 56 44 Hyponyms: relish, zest, zing [slang], tang, twang, bitterness, saltiness, savoriness, sourness, spiciness, sweetness
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: flavor [US]

Verb

Audio: En-us-flavour.ogg [US] Forms: flavours [present, singular, third-person], flavouring [participle, present], flavoured [participle, past], flavoured [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb}} flavour (third-person singular simple present flavours, present participle flavouring, simple past and past participle flavoured)
  1. British standard spelling of flavor.
    Sense id: en-flavour-en-verb-ZVM9E3J4 Categories (other): English links with manual fragments, English links with redundant alt parameters
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: flavor [US]

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for flavour meaning in English (5.0kB)

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