savor

See also: savôr

English

Noun

savor (plural savors)

  1. US standard spelling of savour.
    • 1900, New York (State) Legislature, Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York, page 774, syllabus of the department of public instruction:
      Taste gives knowledge of the savors of material things. Touch gives knowledge of form, smoothness, roughness, hardness, softness, pressure, temperature. Hearing gives knowledge of sound and distinguishes noises, musical tones, [...]

Verb

savor (third-person singular simple present savors, present participle savoring, simple past and past participle savored)

  1. US standard spelling of savour.
    • 1915, John Burroughs, The Writings of John Burroughs:
      An explanation of life phenomena that savors of the laboratory and chemism repels me, and an explanation that savors of the theological point of view is equally distasteful to me. I crave and seek a natural explanation of all phenomena ...

Anagrams

Ido

Verb

savor

  1. future infinitive of savar

Lombard

Etymology

Akin to Italian sapore, from Latin sapor. Compare also French saveur.

Noun

savor

  1. taste

Old French

Noun

savor f (oblique plural savors, nominative singular savor, nominative plural savors)

  1. Alternative form of savour

Romanian

Noun

savor m (plural savori)

  1. Obsolete form of samur.

Declension
Declension of savor
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) savor savorul (niște) savori savorii
genitive/dative (unui) savor savorului (unor) savori savorilor
vocative savorule savorilor

References
  • savor in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN
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