flavor

nounodor and taste
nounaura, essence
verbadd seasoning

Synonyms for flavor

noun odor and taste

Antonyms for flavor

blandness

Word Origin & History

c.1300, "a smell, odor" (usually a pleasing one), from Old French flaour "smell, odor," from Vulgar Latin flator "odor," literally "that which blows," from Latin flator "blower," from flare "to blow, puff," which is cognate with Old English blawan (see blow (v.1)).

The same Vulgar Latin source produced Old Italian fiatore "a bad odor." Sense of "taste, savor" is 1690s, perhaps 1670s; originally "the element in taste which depends on the sense of smell." The -v- is perhaps from influence of savor.

Example Sentences forflavor

While pulling, flavor with vanilla and a few drops of lemon.

As the roasting also develops the flavor, it must be done carefully.

Also there was a flavor of farm-yard in my nostrils and the shouting of a multitude in my ears.

This cousin had a broken hip, she needed company, and the flavor of old times.

Kirkwood's smile robbed the retort of any flavor of incivility.

Something it has--a flavor of the sea, And the sea's freedom--which reminds of thee.

Flavor with lemon, and pour into buttered tins, or pull, as you prefer.

It is frequently put with other plants to give a flavor of garlic to the dish.

He says they are rather tasteless, tough, slightly woody in flavor.

I do not detect any difference in the flavor of these and other species.

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Antonyms for flavor

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atmosphere

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