1 [U] how food or drink tastes:
The tomatoes give extra flavour to the sauce. * It is stronger in flavour than other traditional Dutch cheeses.
2 [C] a particular type of taste:
This yogurt comes in ten different flavours. * a wine with a delicate fruit flavour
3 [sing.] a particular quality or atmosphere:
the distinctive flavour of South Florida * The film retains much of the book's exotic flavour. * Foreign visitors help to give a truly international flavour to the occasion.
4 [sing.] a / the ~ of sth an idea of what sth is like:
I have tried to convey something of the flavour of the argument. * The following extract gives a flavour of the poet's later works.
5 (computing) a particular type of sth, especially computer SOFTWARE
IDIOMS
flavour of the month (especially BrE) somebody or something that is very popular at a particular time:
Environmental issues are no longer the flavour of the month. * I'm not exactly flavour of the month around here at the moment.
verb [VN] ~ sth (with sth) to add sth to food or drink to give it more flavour or a particular flavour
