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FLAVOUR
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth
Synonyms:
flavor; flavour; nip; relish; sapidity; savor; savour; smack; tang
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("flavour" is a kind of...):
gustatory perception; gustatory sensation; taste; taste perception; taste sensation (the sensation that results when taste buds in the tongue and throat convey information about the chemical composition of a soluble stimulus)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "flavour"):
lemon (a distinctive tart flavor characteristic of lemons)
vanilla (a distinctive fragrant flavor characteristic of vanilla beans)
Derivation:
flavour (lend flavor to)
flavourous (full of flavor)
Sense 2
Meaning:
(physics) the six kinds of quarks
Synonyms:
flavor; flavour
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("flavour" is a kind of...):
form; kind; sort; variety (a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality)
Domain category:
high-energy physics; high energy physics; particle physics (the branch of physics that studies subatomic particles and their interactions)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "flavour"):
charm; strangeness ((physics) one of the six flavors of quark)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people
Example:
it had the smell of treason
Synonyms:
feel; feeling; flavor; flavour; look; smell; spirit; tone
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("flavour" is a kind of...):
ambiance; ambience; atmosphere (a particular environment or surrounding influence)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "flavour"):
Hollywood (a flashy vulgar tone or atmosphere believed to be characteristic of the American film industry)
Zeitgeist (the spirit of the time; the spirit characteristic of an age or generation)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Lend flavor to
Example:
Season the chicken breast after roasting it
Synonyms:
flavor; flavour; season
Classified under:
Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling
Cause:
savor; savour; taste (have flavor; taste of something)
Domain category:
cookery; cooking; preparation (the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "flavour"):
sauce (dress (food) with a relish)
curry (season with a mixture of spices; typical of Indian cooking)
resinate (impregnate with resin to give a special flavor to)
spice; spice up; zest (add herbs or spices to)
savor; savour (give taste to)
salt (add salt to)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Derivation:
flavour (the taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth)
flavourer; flavouring (something added to food primarily for the savor it imparts)
Context examples:
I know how soon youth would fade and bloom perish, if, in the cup of bliss offered, but one dreg of shame, or one flavour of remorse were detected; and I do not want sacrifice, sorrow, dissolution—such is not my taste.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Of there being a breakfast, with abundance of things, pretty and substantial, to eat and drink, whereof I partake, as I should do in any other dream, without the least perception of their flavour; eating and drinking, as I may say, nothing but love and marriage, and no more believing in the viands than in anything else.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after-flavour, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Sometimes, to make it a more sovereign specific, he was so kind as to squeeze orange juice into it, or to stir it up with ginger, or dissolve a peppermint drop in it; and although I cannot assert that the flavour was improved by these experiments, or that it was exactly the compound one would have chosen for a stomachic, the last thing at night and the first thing in the morning, I drank it gratefully and was very sensible of his attention.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
The glory of lodging over this structure would have compensated him, I dare say, for many inconveniences; but, as there were really few to bear, beyond the compound of flavours I have already mentioned, and perhaps the want of a little more elbow-room, he was perfectly charmed with his accommodation.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
