Flavor

/ˈfleɪvə/ · noun

Meaning

The quality produced by the sensation of taste or, especially, of taste and smell in combined effect..

Definitions by Sense

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).
4. The characteristic quality of something.
5. (informal, figurative) A kind or type.
6. (hip-hop slang) Style.
7. (particle physics) One of the six types of quarks (top, bottom, strange, charmed, up, and down) or three types of leptons (electron, muon, and tauon).
8. (archaic) The quality produced by the sensation of smell; odour; fragrance.

Example Sentences

The flavor of this apple pie is delicious.

Flavor was added to the pudding.

What flavor of bubble gum do you most enjoy?

My favorite flavor of lip balm is called mystical minty camomile.

the flavor of an experience

I'd like to read from a pair of letters that we got recently at GCN to give you the flavor of the issues gay prisoners have to deal with.

Debian is one flavor of the Linux operating system.

Who brings the flavor? / That's me, that's me / Who brings the flavor? / That's me. I got it

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Word Forms

• flavors
• flavour
• flavoring
• flavored

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