| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | fla·vor |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  fl  v r |
| NOUN: | 1. Distinctive taste; savor: a flavor of smoke in bacon. See synonyms at taste. 2. 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). 3. A flavoring: contains no artificial flavors. 4. Archaic Aroma; fragrance. | | TRANSITIVE VERB: | Inflected forms: fla·vored, fla·vor·ing, fla·vors
To give flavor to. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English flavour, aroma, from Old French flaor, from Vulgar Latin *fltor, from Latin flre, to blow. See bhl - in Appendix I. | | OTHER FORMS: | flavor·er —NOUN
flavor·less —ADJECTIVE
flavor·ous (-s) , flavor·some (-sm) —ADJECTIVE
flavor·y —ADJECTIVE
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