savourverb [ T ]
UK US savor uk/ˈseɪ.vər/us/ˈseɪ.vɚ/to enjoy food or an experience slowly, in order to enjoy it as much as possible:
It was the first chocolate he'd tasted for over a year, so he savoured every mouthful.
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Taking pleasure in something
- bask
- bask in sth
- bask/bathe in reflected glory idiom
- be a glutton for punishment idiom
- be a great one for sth idiom
- drool
- ecstasy
- glory
- glutton
- have a ball idiom
- have a field day idiom
- have a rare old time idiom
- hedonic
- lap
- relish
- revel
- revel in sth
- ride (on) a wave of sth idiom
- self-indulgent
- soak
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Phrasal verb(s)
savour of sth
savournoun [ S or U ]
UK literary US savor uk/ˈseɪ.vər/us/ˈseɪ.vɚ/pleasure and interest:
She felt that life had lost most of its savour.
a smell or taste, especially a pleasant one
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Pleasure and happiness
- abandon
- afterglow
- bed
- bed of roses idiom
- bliss
- delirium
- exaltation
- exult
- feast
- felicity
- fulfilment
- fun
- gaiety
- goody
- jovial
- joy
- joyful
- joyous
- jubilation
- stardust
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Flavours & tastes
Smells & smelling