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# flavour

noun (flavour, flavours — UK; flavor — US); verb (flavour, flavours, flavoured, flavouring)

«flavour» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Flavour is the taste of food or drink: a lemon flavour. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flavour/#m1)
2. A flavour is one kind of taste that a food is made in: ice cream comes in many flavours. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flavour/#m2)
3. To flavour means to add something to food to give it a taste: flavour the soup with herbs. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flavour/#m3)
4. Flavour can mean the special feeling or character of something: the festival had a Mexican flavour. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flavour/#m4)

### In the lessons

In science, flavour comes from taste (sweet, sour, salty, bitter, umami — detected by the tongue) and smell together; when your nose is blocked, food tastes of less. In everyday life, children choose flavours of ice cream, crisps and juice; food labels say «artificial flavourings». In maths, flavour data is used for tally charts and bar graphs («our class's favourite ice-cream flavours»). Phrases: favourite flavour, strawberry flavour, full of flavour, flavour of the month.

### Examples

- What's your favourite ice-cream flavour? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flavour/#x1)
- Chocolate is the most popular flavour in our class tally. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flavour/#x2)
- Mum flavoured the rice with garlic and lemon. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flavour/#x3)
- When you have a cold, food has less flavour. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flavour/#x4)
- These crisps are cheese and onion flavour. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flavour/#x5)
- Fresh herbs add flavour to the pasta. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flavour/#x6)
- The town fair had a real seaside flavour. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flavour/#x7)
- The Town Mouse came, and they sat down to a dinner of barleycorns and roots, the latter of which had a distinctly earthy flavour. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flavour/#x8)

### Note

Spelling: «flavour» in British, Irish, Canadian, Australian and New Zealand English; «flavor» in American English. Countable (flavours). «Flavoured» (with real or added taste) is on many food labels.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «flavour» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flavour/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«flavour» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/flavour.html) on Mova free.