FLAVOR
relish, flavor, flavour, sapidity, savor, savour, smack, nip, tang
(noun) the taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth
flavor, flavour
(noun) (physics) the six kinds of quarks
spirit, tone, feel, feeling, flavor, flavour, look, smell
(noun) the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people; “the feel of the city excited him”; “a clergyman improved the tone of the meeting”; “it had the smell of treason”
season, flavor, flavour
(verb) lend flavor to; “Season the chicken breast after roasting it”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
flavor (countable and uncountable, plural flavors) (American spelling)
The quality produced by the sensation of taste or, especially, of taste and smell in combined effect.
A substance used to produce a taste. Flavoring.
A variety (of taste) attributed to an object.
The characteristic quality of something.
(informal) A kind or type.
(physics) One of the six types of quarks (top, bottom, strange, charmed, up, and down) or three types of leptons (electron, muon, and tauon).
(archaic) The quality produced by the sensation of smell; odour; fragrance.
Verb
flavor (third-person singular simple present flavors, present participle flavoring, simple past and past participle flavored)
(American spelling, transitive) To add flavoring to something.
Source: Wiktionary
Fla"vor, n. Etym: [OF. fleur, flaur (two syllables), odor, cf. F.
fleurer to emit an odor, It. flatore a bad odor, prob. fr. L. flare
to bow, whence the sense of exhalation. Cf. Blow.] [Written also
flavour.]
1. That quality of anything which affects the smell; odor;
fragrances; as, the flavor of a rose.
2. That quality of anything which affects the taste; that quality
which gratifies the palate; relish; zest; savor; as, the flavor of
food or drink.
3. That which imparts to anything a peculiar odor or taste,
gratifying to the sense of smell, or the nicer perceptions of the
palate; a substance which flavors.
4. That quality which gives character to any of the productions of
literature or the fine arts.
Fla"vor, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Flavored; p. pr. & vb. n. Flavoring.]
Definition: To give flavor to; to add something (as salt or a spice) to, to
give character or zest.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition