flair
Use Flair in a sentence
Ads
Thermal Oxidizer Flare www.tciusainc.com/ VOC BTEX Hydrocarbon Incineration natural draft no refractory 99.9%
Get The Dictionary.com Mobile App! www.dictionary.com/mobile Enjoy Exclusive Features like Voice Search! iPhone, Android, iPad, BlackBerry, Windows & More. Download Now!
noun
1.
a natural talent, aptitude, or ability; bent; knack: a flair for rhyming.
2.
smartness of style, manner, etc.: Their window display has absolutely no flair at all. Synonyms: chic, dash, panache, verve; oomph, pizazz.
3.
keen, intuitive perception or discernment: We want a casting director with a real flair for finding dramatic talent.
4.
Hunting. scent; sense of smell.
Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2013.
Cite This Source
Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2013.
Cite This Source
|
Link To flair
00:10
Flair
is always a great word to know.
So is slumgullion. Does it mean:
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
| a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc. |
Collins
World English Dictionary
flair1 (flɛə) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | natural ability; talent; aptitude |
| 2. | instinctive discernment; perceptiveness |
| 3. | stylishness or elegance; dash: to dress with flair |
| 4. | rare hunting |
| a. the scent left by quarry | |
| b. the sense of smell of a hound | |
| [C19: from French, literally: sense of smell, from Old French: scent, from flairier to give off a smell, ultimately from Latin frāgrāre to smell sweet; see | |
| flair2 (flIr) | |
| —n | |
| a Scot word for floor | |
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
2009 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
Cite This Source
2009 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
Cite This Source
Etymonline
Word Origin & History
flair
mid-14c., "an odor," from O.Fr. flair "odor or scent," from flairer "to smell," from L.L. fragrare "emit (a sweet) odor" (see fragrant), with shift of -r- to -l- by dissimilation. Sense of "special aptitude" is Amer.Eng. 1925, perhaps from notion of a hound's ability to track scent.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
Cite This Source
Cite This Source
FOLDOC
Computing Dictionary
FLAIR definition
languageAn early system on the IBM 650.
[Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959)].
(1995-03-17)
Example sentences
He designs using traditional techniques with a modern flair.
But for the past ten years the design flair of older generations has been creeping back.
Decorations add a festive flair to this grand old hotel and always put me in the holiday spirit.
Get secondhand styles with first-rate flair at thrift stores.
Matching Quote
Nearby Words
Copyright © 2013 Dictionary.com, LLC. All rights reserved.
