flavour1 nounflavour2 verb
flavourfla‧vour1 British English, flavor American English /ˈfleɪvə $ -ər/ ●●● S2 W2 noun 
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- The wine wasn't bad, but it didn't have much flavour.
- This sauce has a really unusual flavour.
- Even the regional flavour of the menu has been lost.
- I part and sample their famous shellfish, strange in flavour, perfect in appearance.
- It's a focal point for people from miles around and has a really continental flavour.
- It is certainly easy to prepare, but I always think it lacks the flavour of some other types of rice.
- On this occasion, as an added piquancy, the festival promised to have a distinctly radical flavour.
- One can not over-emphasise the need to remove any disciplinary flavour from the proposed system.
- Tasteless apart from the overwhelming sugar flavour.
- Teewurst has a rich and pronounced smoked flavour and is delicious on hot toast or crackers.
Longman Language Activatorthe taste of food or drink
the feeling that a particular food or drink produces in your mouth when you eat or drink it: · I never drink beer, I just don't like the taste.· a sour tastetaste of: · Have some water to take away the taste of the medicine.
British /flavor American the pleasant, interesting, or strong taste that a particular kind of food or drink has: · This sauce has a really unusual flavour.· We have three flavors of ice cream - strawberry, chocolate, and vanilla.· The wine wasn't bad, but it didn't have much flavour.
a slight, pleasant taste of something that you can only just notice: hint of: · You might notice a hint of brandy in the sauce.· a wine that tastes of blackcurrants with just a hint of vanilla
the unpleasant taste that some kinds of food and drink leave in your mouth after you have swallowed them: · Some customers complained about the salty aftertaste.· The crab left too much of a fishy aftertaste.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY Meanings 1 & 2ADJECTIVES/NOUN + flavour
Now you can enjoy Nescafé's fuller flavour in a decaffeinated form. a cheese with a pleasant mild flavour The flavour of the dried berries is more subtle.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
· Mango has a delicious flavour.
· The flavor was like peaches, but not as sweet.
· The seeds have a nutty flavour.
· a relatively mild chili with a rich, smoky flavor
· The flavour of the sauce was quite strong.
(=strong and pleasant)· The brown sugar makes the flavour especially rich.
· I prefer a sausage with a milder flavour.
(=pleasant and not strong or bitter)· Add milk to make the flavour more mellow.
(=pleasant and not strong)· The wine should be served cold so that it doesn’t lose any of its delicate flavour.
(=very different from other foods or drinks)· Juniper berries give the drink its distinctive flavour.
· Does this milkshake come in a chocolate flavor?
verbs· These biscuits have a very distinctive flavour.
· Herbs add flavor to a salad.
(=make the flavour more noticeable)· The fruit is cooked to bring out the flavour.
· You can enhance the flavour by adding some cream.
phrases· The beef is tender and full of flavour.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES· Ice cream often has artificial flavours in it.
Now you can enjoy Nescafé's fuller flavour in a decaffeinated form. a cheese with a pleasant mild flavour The flavour of the dried berries is more subtle.· Carbon dioxide also offers the flexibility to separate the hop components into bitter and flavour fractions.· Raw berries should be cooked and sweetened before being eaten because they have an intensely bitter flavour.
· Their skin is rough and sometimes striped, with a sweet and scented delicate flavour.· Formosa Oolong A semi-fermented or oxidised tea with a delicate flavour.· Boneless salmon fillets are especially popular with children who enjoy its delicate, fresh flavour.· After centuries of crumbling gently before exciting our taste buds with your delicate flavour you have finally departed your origins.
· Corn oil is slightly heavier and more distinctive in flavour - I find it too heavy for salads.· In many cases the use of local materials imparted to country stations a distinctive regional flavour.· No brewer should ever be afraid of making beer with a distinctive flavour.· To my taste, none of these have a particularly distinctive flavour, but the quality in texture is immediately obvious.· Thanks to some very skilful hanging each of the four rooms used has a very distinctive flavour all its own.· They tend to have a distinctive, pungent flavour and are quite different from other cheeses.· It has a distinctive flavour that blends well with pork.
· The Flavia is a small tomato, which is left on the vine longer to develop a fuller flavour.· Mushrooms: large open cup mushrooms are full of flavour.· Blanquette de Limoux has a lovely creamy taste, with a full, rounded flavour.· It does cook up wet and sticky, but has a texture of its own and is full of flavour.· Some differential geometry and tensor analysis is needed in order to appreciate the full flavour of the theory.· Nowadays, Lancashire cheese is kept for three months, so it has a slightly fuller flavour.· So, you can enjoy the full flavour of Nescafé in a decaffeinated form.
· Of course, meat must eat well, that is, be tender, juicy, and of good flavour.· Lots of cherries and other fruit and good boozy flavour - a cross between Christmas cake and pudding.· The longer this salad chills the better the flavour.· Safeway Organic Bananas, £1.59 for six A sweet banana with good all-round flavour and a smooth texture.· Follow the given preparation and cooking order correctly for the best flavour and beautiful vivid colours.· We were looking for a good flavour and meaty texture.· Both have a good flavour when fully ripened, but the unpasteurised cheeses are very strong and an absolute delight!
· But it was not only the international flavour of Penguin New Writing that distinguished it from other symposia of this kind.· In fact the international flavour came early.
· I keep one pressed goats' milk cheese, Burndell, which has a creamy texture and a mild flavour.· Doux de Montagne is a delicious, semi-hard cheese with a mild, fruity flavour and buttery after-taste.
· It has a rich nutty flavour and a full bodied bouquet.· Buckwheat pasta has a strong, nutty flavour.· They have a distinctively nutty flavour and texture.· Excelso has a nutty flavour and Medellin is very fragrant.· Wild rice has a very nutty flavour and takes a long time to cook.· Both types belong to the kidney bean family and have a slightly nutty flavour.
· The Norfolk Royal Russet is a new apple with rich flavour and scent.· I use grapeseed oil for mayonnaise, finding that olive oil gives too rich a flavour.· It has a rich nutty flavour and a full bodied bouquet.· Excellent, rich flavour with plenty of fruit, nuts and alcohol, though it needs a little more spice and peel.· Finally it is blended with 10 year old Balsamic vinegar to give its distinctive dark, sweet, rich flavour.· The brown sugar, incidentally, gives rhubarb a specially rich flavour and colour.· Recipes with imagination and taste, rich in flavour not unwanted calories or fats.
· The more finely sliced the ingredients the stronger the flavour.· Contains lots of cherries and other fruit and has a strong citrus flavour.· The cheese is firm in texture and has a strong flavour.· Mace is the outer husk of the nutmeg and has a strong but fragrant flavour.· When the purée is made a little extra port can be added by those who like a stronger flavour of wine.· Buckwheat pasta has a strong, nutty flavour.· For a stronger flavour, sprinkle the sponge biscuits with orange juice and extra Cointreau.· The resulting baking had a strong garlic flavour, more acceptable perhaps in bread, but cakes, Yuk!
· Kikkoman Soy Sauce takes its pure and subtle flavour from the lengthy natural fermentation process.· Goujons of sole Here's a recipe to make the lovely, firm texture and subtle flavour of sole go a little further.· The latter are the hottest, the dried berries having a more subtle flavour.· Processed Caerphilly can be rather bland, but a traditional farmhouse variety has a delicious, if subtle flavour.· It gave the dish a very subtle flavour, that Port-Salut.
· Internment - as opposed to prisoners-of-war camps - has a unique sociological flavour.· Without bruising the town's unique flavour, Stein has found its old buildings a creative role in a modern world.· They have a unique flavour and need only to be used sparingly to enliven the dullest of dishes.
VERB· It adds a characteristic flavour to a range of savoury dishes, from pizza to pork chops.· If liked, 1 teaspoon of rum could be added for extra flavour.· If possible, brush the sauce on a couple of hours before cooking as this will add greatly to the flavour.· He was searching for a complete lyricist who could add flavour to songs he was intending to be covered by bigger artists.· To add more flavour, sprinkle with freshly ground black pepper.· You can more or less make soup from anything, though a good home-made stock adds a certain flavour.· If your food tastes bland at first, add flavour with herbs and spices, particularly garlic.
· Add a bit of orange peel, it you like, and a crushed dried and seeded chilli gives a nice flavour.· This long extract gives one the general flavour of Locke's discourse, besides illustrating some of his main propositions.· The addition of the sun-dried tomatoes gives extra flavour to the sauce.· A few examples may give a flavour.· I use grapeseed oil for mayonnaise, finding that olive oil gives too rich a flavour.· It is a long way short of defining the format, but gives the flavour.· Three typical examples will give a flavour of the nature and range of such problems. 1.· They played a few bars to the listeners at home, just to give them the flavour.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRYPHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
1[countable] the particular taste of a food or drink: - But Portillo is fast becoming flavour of the month and will increasingly find himself in the public eye.
- But the flavour of the month was no flavour at all.
- He is never one to go for gimmicks or flavour of the month hairdressing.
- I roll the flavour of the month round in my mouth.
- Nicholson and Hopper suddenly became the flavour of the month.
- Not the flavour of the month exactly, especially with your own people.
- Promotion is the new non flavour of the month.
- These are full-bodied, richly flavoured wines which, with the wines of Sacy, are the best of the Petite Montagne.
Which flavour do you want – chocolate or vanilla?flavour of a dry wine with flavors of honey and apricot2[uncountable] the quality of tasting good: I prefer this one because it has more flavour.3[countable, uncountable] a substance used to give something a particular taste SYN flavouring: artificial flavours4[singular] a quality or feature that makes something have a particular style or character: The stories have a strong regional flavour.flavour of Critics claim the building would destroy the flavor of the neighborhood.5[singular] an idea of what the typical qualities of something areflavour of Marston’s book gives you a flavour of life in the 16th century.6flavour of the month an idea, person, style etc that is very popular at a particular timeCOLLOCATIONS– Meanings 1 & 2ADJECTIVES/NOUN + flavourdelicious· Mango has a delicious flavour.sweet/spicy/bitter/salty etc· The flavor was like peaches, but not as sweet.nutty· The seeds have a nutty flavour.smoky· a relatively mild chili with a rich, smoky flavorstrong· The flavour of the sauce was quite strong.rich (=strong and pleasant)· The brown sugar makes the flavour especially rich.mild· I prefer a sausage with a milder flavour.mellow/smooth (=pleasant and not strong or bitter)· Add milk to make the flavour more mellow.delicate/subtle (=pleasant and not strong)· The wine should be served cold so that it doesn’t lose any of its delicate flavour.distinctive/unique (=very different from other foods or drinks)· Juniper berries give the drink its distinctive flavour.chocolate/strawberry etc flavour· Does this milkshake come in a chocolate flavor?verbshave a sweet/strong etc flavour· These biscuits have a very distinctive flavour.add/give flavour· Herbs add flavor to a salad.bring out the flavour (=make the flavour more noticeable)· The fruit is cooked to bring out the flavour.improve/enhance the flavour· You can enhance the flavour by adding some cream.phrasesbe full of flavour· The beef is tender and full of flavour.flavour1 nounflavour2 verb
flavourflavour2 British English, flavor American English verb [transitive] VERB TABLE
flavour (BrE)
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | flavour (BrE) |
| he, she, it | flavours (BrE) | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | flavoured (BrE) |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have flavoured (BrE) |
| he, she, it | has flavoured (BrE) | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had flavoured (BrE) |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will flavour |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have flavoured (BrE) |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am flavouring (BrE) |
| he, she, it | is flavouring (BrE) | |
| you, we, they | are flavouring (BrE) | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was flavouring (BrE) |
| you, we, they | were flavouring (BrE) | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been flavouring (BrE) |
| he, she, it | has been flavouring (BrE) | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been flavouring (BrE) |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be flavouring (BrE) |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been flavouring (BrE) |
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
- Cardamoms are used to flavour rice and, after saffron, are the world's most expensive spice.
- Cut down on salt and use more herbs to flavour your food. 7.
- Dijon mustards are flavoured with spices.
- Haslet is a pork meat loaf, which is flavoured with a variety of herbs and spices.
- It is sometimes flavoured with peppercorns.
- It was noodles flavoured with flakes of dried tuna from Miyako.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES Now you can enjoy Nescafé's fuller flavour in a decaffeinated form. a cheese with a pleasant mild flavour The flavour of the dried berries is more subtle.
· Ice cream often has artificial flavours in it.
Now you can enjoy Nescafé's fuller flavour in a decaffeinated form. a cheese with a pleasant mild flavour The flavour of the dried berries is more subtle.PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
to give something a particular taste or more taste- These are full-bodied, richly flavoured wines which, with the wines of Sacy, are the best of the Petite Montagne.