flavour

1. 1.

   lend flavor to

   “Season the chicken breast after roasting it”

   Synonymsseasonflavor

   Narrowersaucecurryresinatezestsavorsalt

   cooking

Other forms of flavour

plural

flavours·

past tense

flavoured·

present participle

flavouring·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about flavour

What does flavour mean?

flavour means "the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in flavour?

flavour has 2 syllables: fla-vour. The stress falls on "fla".

What is another word for flavour?

Close synonyms include spirit, tone, feel, feeling, flavor. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is flavour a common word?

flavour is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.