Distinctive taste; savor: a flavor of smoke in bacon. See Synonyms at taste.
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).
A flavoring: contains no artificial flavors.
Physics Any of six classifications of quark varieties (up, down, strange, charm, top, and bottom), distinguished by mass and electric charge.
Archaic Aroma; fragrance.
tr.v.
fla·vored, fla·vor·ing, fla·vors To give flavor to.
[Middle English flavour, aroma, from Old French flaor, from Vulgar Latin *flātor, from Latin flāre, to blow; see bhlē- in Indo-European roots.] fla'vor·er n., fla'vor·less adj., fla'vor·ous (-əs), fla'vor·some (-səm) adj., fla'vor·y adj.
Main Entry: 2flavor Variant: or chiefly Britishfla·vour Function: transitive verb Inflected Forms: fla·voredor chieflyBritishfla·voured; fla·vor·ingor chiefly Britishfla·vour·ing/'flAv-(&-)ri[ng]/ : to give or addflavor to
flavor (flā'vər) Pronunciation Key
Any of six classifications of quark varieties, distinguished by mass and electric charge. The flavors have the names up, down, strange, charm, top, and bottom. Protons in atomic nuclei are composed of two up quarks and one down quark, while neutrons consist of one up quark and two down quarks. The flavor of a quark may be changed in interactions involving the weak force.