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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The taste or smell of something.
  2. n. A specific taste or smell. See Synonyms at taste.
  3. n. A distinctive quality or sensation: enjoying the savor of victory.
  4. v. To have a particular taste or smell: a dish that savors of curry.
  5. v. To exhibit a specified quality or characteristic; smack: postures that savored of vanity.
  6. v. To impart flavor or scent to; season: savored the bland soup with salt.
  7. v. To taste or smell, especially with pleasure: savored each morsel of the feast.
  8. v. To appreciate fully; enjoy or relish: I want to savor this great moment of accomplishment.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Taste; flavor; relish; power or quality that affects the palate: as, food with a pleasant savor.
  2. n. Odor; smell.
  3. n. An odorous substance; a perfume.
  4. n. Characteristic property; distinctive flavor or quality.
  5. n. Name; repute; reputation; character.
  6. n. Sense of smell; power to scent or perceive.
  7. n. Pleasure; delight.
  8. n. Synonyms Flavor, Smack, etc. See taste.
  9. n. Scent, Fragrance, etc. See smell.
  10. To taste or smell; have a taste, flavor, or odor (of some particular kind or quality).
  11. To have a bad odor; stink.
  12. To have or exhibit a peculiar quality or characteristic; partake of the nature; smack: followed by of: as, his answers savor of insolence.
  13. To perceive by taste or smell; smell; hence, to discern; note; perceive.
  14. To exhibit the characteristics of; partake of the nature of; indicate the presence of; have the flavor or quality of.
  15. To care for; relish; take pleasure in; enjoy; like.
  16. To please; give pleasure or satisfaction to; suit.
  17. To give savor or flavor to; season.

Wiktionary

  1. n. the specific taste or smell of something
  2. n. a distinctive sensation
  3. v. to possess a particular taste or smell, or a distinctive quality
  4. v. to appreciate, enjoy or relish something

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. That property of a thing which affects the organs of taste or smell; taste and odor; flavor; relish; scent.
  2. n. Hence, specific flavor or quality; characteristic property; distinctive temper, tinge, taint, and the like.
  3. n. rare Sense of smell; power to scent, or trace by scent.
  4. n. obsolete Pleasure; delight; attractiveness.
  5. v. To have a particular smell or taste; -- with of.
  6. v. To partake of the quality or nature; to indicate the presence or influence; to smack; -- with of.
  7. v. obsolete To use the sense of taste.
  8. v. obsolete To perceive by the smell or the taste; hence, to perceive; to note.
  9. v. rare To have the flavor or quality of; to indicate the presence of.
  10. v. rare To taste or smell with pleasure; to delight in; to relish; to like; to favor.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. give taste to
  2. v. taste appreciatively
  3. n. the taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth
  4. v. derive or receive pleasure from; get enjoyment from; take pleasure in
  5. v. have flavor; taste of something

Etymologies

  1. 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)
  2. 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)

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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

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