Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The taste or smell of something.
- n. A specific taste or smell. See Synonyms at taste.
- n. A distinctive quality or sensation: enjoying the savor of victory.
- v. To have a particular taste or smell: a dish that savors of curry.
- v. To exhibit a specified quality or characteristic; smack: postures that savored of vanity.
- v. To impart flavor or scent to; season: savored the bland soup with salt.
- v. To taste or smell, especially with pleasure: savored each morsel of the feast.
- v. To appreciate fully; enjoy or relish: I want to savor this great moment of accomplishment.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Taste; flavor; relish; power or quality that affects the palate: as, food with a pleasant savor.
- n. Odor; smell.
- n. An odorous substance; a perfume.
- n. Characteristic property; distinctive flavor or quality.
- n. Name; repute; reputation; character.
- n. Sense of smell; power to scent or perceive.
- n. Pleasure; delight.
- n. Synonyms Flavor, Smack, etc. See taste.
- n. Scent, Fragrance, etc. See smell.
- To taste or smell; have a taste, flavor, or odor (of some particular kind or quality).
- To have a bad odor; stink.
- To have or exhibit a peculiar quality or characteristic; partake of the nature; smack: followed by of: as, his answers savor of insolence.
- To perceive by taste or smell; smell; hence, to discern; note; perceive.
- To exhibit the characteristics of; partake of the nature of; indicate the presence of; have the flavor or quality of.
- To care for; relish; take pleasure in; enjoy; like.
- To please; give pleasure or satisfaction to; suit.
- To give savor or flavor to; season.
Wiktionary
- n. the specific taste or smell of something
- n. a distinctive sensation
- v. to possess a particular taste or smell, or a distinctive quality
- v. to appreciate, enjoy or relish something
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. That property of a thing which affects the organs of taste or smell; taste and odor; flavor; relish; scent.
- n. Hence, specific flavor or quality; characteristic property; distinctive temper, tinge, taint, and the like.
- n. rare Sense of smell; power to scent, or trace by scent.
- n. obsolete Pleasure; delight; attractiveness.
- v. To have a particular smell or taste; -- with
of . - v. To partake of the quality or nature; to indicate the presence or influence; to smack; -- with
of . - v. obsolete To use the sense of taste.
- v. obsolete To perceive by the smell or the taste; hence, to perceive; to note.
- v. rare To have the flavor or quality of; to indicate the presence of.
- v. rare To taste or smell with pleasure; to delight in; to relish; to like; to favor.
WordNet 3.0
- v. give taste to
- v. taste appreciatively
- n. the taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth
- v. derive or receive pleasure from; get enjoyment from; take pleasure in
- v. have flavor; taste of something
Etymologies
- From Old French savourer, from Late Latin sapōrāre, present active infinitive of sapōrō, from sapor ("taste, flavor"), from sapiō ("taste of, have a flavor of"). (Wiktionary)
- Middle English savour, from Old French, from Latin sapor, from sapere, to taste; see sep- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Though the film never amounts to much, there are a number of wry, memorable moments to savor from the movie.”
“Bad savor is endurable in oil, but not in what professes to be, and is compounded by the perfumer ( "apothecary") for, fragrance.”
“The English word was influenced by the unrelated word savor, the French word shows the addition of the diminutive suffix, - ette, the Italian word was confused with santo, ` sacred, 'and the Spanish word, coming from Latin influenced by Arabic, preserves the Arabic definite article, a (l) -.”
“The slowness of communication" is a phrase to savor.”
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“Still, night after beer-soaked night, musicians and fans packed inside to savor a kaleidoscope of sound.”
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“But the combination of those tough economic decisions that led to fiscal discipline, that led to tighter control on the budget, plus all the other things that began working well for our economy -- the monetary policy is clearly one of them -- have combined to give the American people a moment to savor, which is a federal budget surplus, which is something we haven't been talking about for well over a generation.”
“It could never be the same, and you kind of savor it and realize how lucky you were.”
“Locals come to lounge around the many low-lit tables that fill the sprawling outdoor space at Sevva (a play on the word "savor"), perched atop the penthouse of the Princes Building and decked out with work from London's Fine Art Gallery.”
“So he retorts, "I was letting you savor your news program," getting a laugh out of his use of the word "savor" and her repetition of it.”
Michael Giltz: Cannes 2009 Day Nine: Parents, Palestinians and Panic
“I tell my class when I feel that every word should be read and I often read it aloud or they do so that they can "savor" it or when it is so complicated that skipping words or passages will compromise the meaning.”
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
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abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4087 more...
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GRE Barron's 800
zealot, wistful, welter, wary, whimsical, warranted, vortex, vivisection, volatile, vitiate, viscous, visage and 787 more...
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abase, abate, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abjure, abortive, abound, abrasive, abreast, abridge and 1577 more...
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Let's Eat!
Eating Verbs
boil, break bread, breakfast, chew, chomp, chow down, consume, cram, devour, diet, digest, dig in and 48 more...
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abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
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DAN BROWN ANGELS AND DEMONS
looming, raspy, grimace, squint, groan, peril, zealot, cruciform, shroud, frown, emblazon, savor
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quotidian, flux, sawbuck, horsefeathers, chalcedony, harp, no, fox, tennis, badminton, flue, charm and 186 more...
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industrious, feckless, debunk, quintessence, loquacious, obsequious, laconic, plethora, lugubrious, serendipity, facetious, turgid and 261 more...
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SAT PSAT ALPHABETICAL S
saccharine, sacerdotal, sacrilegious, saga, sagacity, salacious, salient, saline, salivate, salutary, salvo, sanctimonious and 156 more...
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Dewitful
visions of witfulness and vision - a wise guise
revision, advisor, ideal, witty, witness, veda, druid, penguin, hadal, idea, story, history and 269 more...
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abandon, abash, abate, abjure, ablution, abnegate, abominable, aboriginal, abortive, abrade, abridge, abrogate and 2155 more...
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brilliant, delicious, lovely, ever, with, present, here, light, radiant, bright, beauty, live and 209 more...
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Another day, a whole nother list
rump, spot on, flank, outflank, rank, bedeck, leafhopper, apocope, academic, set-to, point of no return, cloy and 210 more...
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Kristianto2010 When we read, “Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good” (Psalm 34:8), we can be sure that God wants us to “savor” His presence. He allows us to gain intimate and satisfying knowledge of Him. And when we meditate on His Word. ODB April 5, 2011. Apr 4, 2011
fbharjo "Every morning I awake torn between a desire to save the world and an inclination to savor it. This makes it hard to plan the day." --EB White Jan 1, 2011