savour

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C1 — Advanced

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun the taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth
  2. verb have flavor; taste of something
  3. verb give taste to

Etymology

From Middle English savour, from Anglo-Norman saveur, savor, savour, and Old French saveur, savor, savour (modern French saveur), from Latin sapor, from sapiō (“to taste of (something); to have a flavour”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *seh₁p-, *sep- (“to taste; to try out”)) + -or (suffix forming third-declension masculine abstract nouns). Doublet of sapor.

In classic literature

Synonyms

relish, flavor, flavour, sapidity, savor, smack, nip, tang

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