Definition of "flavor"

flavor

/ˈfleɪvə/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural flavors
1. The quality produced by the sensation of taste or, especially, of taste and smell in combined effect.
2. Flavoring, a substance used to produce a taste.
3. A variety (of taste) attributed to an object.
4. The characteristic quality of something.
5. (informal) A kind or type.
6. (hip-hop slang) Style.
  Quotations
  Who brings the flavor? / That's me, that's me / Who brings the flavor? / That's me. I got it
  1993, “Bring The Flavor”, in Black Reign, performed by Queen Latifah
7. (particle physics) One of the six types of quarks (top, bottom, strange, charmed, up, and down) or three types of leptons (electron, muon, and tauon).
8. (archaic) The quality produced by the sensation of smell; odour; fragrance.
  Quotations
  It was damp, it was not free from dry rot, there was a flavour of rats in it, and it was the gloomy victim of that indescribable decay which settles on all the work of man’s hands whenever it’s not turned to man’s account.
  1859 December 13, Charles Dickens, “The Mortals in the House”, in Charles Dickens, editor, The Haunted House. The Extra Christmas Number of All the Year Round […], volume II, London: […] C. Whiting, […], page 4
verb
third-person singular simple present flavors, present participle flavoring, simple past and past participle flavored
1. (American spelling, transitive) To add flavoring to something.