Vaihtoehtoiset kirjoitusmuodot
Ääntäminen
Southern England
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Määritelmät
Substantiivi
- (countable) An aroma or smell.
- (uncountable) The quality which the sense of taste detects; also (countable), a specific flavour or taste, especially one different from the predominant one.
- (countable, chiefly in the negative) An appealing or appetizing flavour, especially one which is savoury or strong.
- (countable) A distinctive sensation like a flavour or taste, or an aroma or smell.
- (countable) A particular quality, especially a small amount of it; a hint or trace of something.
- (countable, chiefly in the negative) A quality which is appealing or enjoyable; merit, value.
- (countable, archaic) A reputation.
- (uncountable) Enjoyment or taste for something; appreciation; pleasure; relish; (countable) an instance of this.
- (uncountable, obsolete) Knowledge; understanding.
Verbi
- To detect (a flavour or taste, or food or drink); to taste; specifically, to enjoy or linger on (a flavour or taste, or food and drink); to relish.
- To give (food or drink) flavour; to flavour, to season.
- (archaic) To detect (an aroma or smell, especially an appealing one); to smell.
- To enjoy (something) deeply or in a lingering manner; to appreciate, to delight in, to relish.
- (chiefly in the negative) To find (something) appealing; to appreciate, to like.
- (archaic) To possess (a particular, often negative, quality), especially a small amount of it; to be redolent or suggestive of (something).
- (obsolete) To be appealing to (a person, the senses, etc.).
- (obsolete) To experience, perceive, or understand (something).
- (obsolete) To give (something) a particular quality; to imbue with.
- (obsolete, rare) To give (something) an aroma or smell.
- (obsolete, rare) Followed by out: to detect or find (something).
- (obsolete, uncertain) To have a suspicion of (something).
- (archaic) Of a thing: to give off a (specified) aroma or smell.
- (archaic or obsolete) Of food or drink: to have a specified (especially appealing) flavour or taste.
- To possess a particular (often negative) quality, especially a small amount of it; to be redolent or suggestive of.
- (archaic) Chiefly followed by a descriptive word like ill or well: to have a specified quality.
- To give off a foul smell; to stink.
- (figurative) Chiefly followed by to, unto, with, etc.: to be appealing.
Esimerkit
- He held out to me a bowl of steaming broth, that filled the room with a savour sweeter, ten thousand times, to me than every rose and lily of the world; yet would not let me drink it at a gulp, but made me sip it with a spoon like any baby.
- Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to "Chat of the Social World," gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl's intelligence. She devoured with more avidity than she had her food those pretentiously phrased chronicles of the snobocracy […] distilling therefrom an acid envy that robbed her napoleon of all its savour.
- Why is not my life a continual joy, and the savour of heaven perpetually upon my spirit?
- beyond my savour
- This savours not much of distraction.
- I have rejected everything that savours of party.
- Begone, thou impudent wretch, to hell, thy proper place: thou art a despiser of my glorious majesty, and your frame of spirit savours of blasphemy.
Taivutusmuodot