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Savor

Savor \Sa"vor\, n. [OE. savour, savor, savur, OF. savor, savour, F. saveur, fr. L. sapor, fr. sapere to taste, savor. See Sage, a., and cf. Sapid, Insipid, Sapor.] [Written also savour.]

  1. That property of a thing which affects the organs of taste or smell; taste and odor; flavor; relish; scent; as, the savor of an orange or a rose; an ill savor.

    I smell sweet savors and I feel soft things.
    --Shak.

  2. Hence, specific flavor or quality; characteristic property; distinctive temper, tinge, taint, and the like.

    Why is not my life a continual joy, and the savor of heaven perpetually upon my spirit?
    --Baxter.

  3. Sense of smell; power to scent, or trace by scent. [R.] ``Beyond my savor.''
    --Herbert.

  4. Pleasure; delight; attractiveness. [Obs.]

    She shall no savor have therein but lite.
    --Chaucer.

    Syn: Taste; flavor; relish; odor; scent; smell.

Savor

Savor \Sa"vor\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Savored; p. pr. & vb. n. Savoring.] [Cf. OF. savorer, F. savourer. See Savor, n.]

  1. To have a particular smell or taste; -- with of.

  2. To partake of the quality or nature; to indicate the presence or influence; to smack; -- with of.

    This savors not much of distraction.
    --Shak.

    I have rejected everything that savors of party.
    --Addison.

  3. To use the sense of taste. [Obs.]

    By sight, hearing, smelling, tasting or savoring, and feeling.
    --Chaucer.

Savor

Savor \Sa"vor\, v. t.

  1. To perceive by the smell or the taste; hence, to perceive; to note. [Obs.]
    --B. Jonson.

  2. To have the flavor or quality of; to indicate the presence of. [R.]

    That cuts us off from hope, and savors only Rancor and pride, impatience and despite.
    --Milton.

  3. To taste or smell with pleasure; to delight in; to relish; to like; to favor. [R.]
    --Shak.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
savor

mid-13c., from Old French savor "flavor, taste; sauce, seasoning; delight, pleasure," from Latin saporem (nominative sapor) "taste, flavor," related to sapere "to have a flavor" (see sapient).

savor

c.1300, from Old French savorer "taste, breathe in; appreciate, care for," from Late Latin saporare, from Latin sapor (see savor (n.)). Related: Savored; savoring.

Wiktionary
savor

Etymology 1 n. 1 the specific taste or smell of something 2 a distinctive sensation Etymology 2

vb. 1 to possess a particular taste or smell, or a distinctive quality 2 to appreciate, enjoy or relish something

WordNet
savor

  1. n. the taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth [syn: relish, flavor, flavour, sapidity, savour, smack, tang]

  2. v. derive or receive pleasure from; get enjoyment from; take pleasure in; "She relished her fame and basked in her glory" [syn: enjoy, bask, relish, savour]

  3. have flavor; taste of something [syn: taste, savour]

  4. taste appreciatively; "savor the soup" [syn: savour]

  5. give taste to [syn: savour]

Wikipedia
Savor

Savor may refer to:

  • Savoriness or umami, one of the five generally recognised basic tastes
  • Savor, Hisense's white goods brand name

Usage examples of "savor".

He savored the thought of his Jenny waiting for him in the house his mother had badgered them into buying, or imagined she had.

Elora would eat slowly, pretending to savor every bite, to be sure that Caille was full before she finished what was left.

It had taken her three hours to convince Coigne of that, though, and she grinned, savoring the victory.

Koyama savored the idea of the sensation his observation would cause, the panic among cosmographers trying to work out new formulas for explaining it.

These are servants attracted in Thy days by the fragrances of Thy holiness, enkindled with the flame burning in Thy holy tree, responding to Thy voice, uttering Thy praise, awakened by Thy breeze, stirred by Thy sweet savors, beholding Thy signs, understanding Thy verses, hearkening to Thy words, believing Thy Revelation and assured of Thy loving-kindness.

For the first time I savored the power implicit in the purple eques stripe.

And nothing will do that, thought Bossk, savoring the words, like blowing Fett to atoms.

The other, a chocolate cookie whose dark, fudgy essence and brownie-like texture I could already savor, I would call 911 Cookies - for chocolate emergencies.

When I was within the house I found my deare and sweet love Fotis mincing of meat and making pottage for her master and mistresse, the Cupboord was all set with wines, and I thought I smelled the savor of some dainty meats : she had about her middle a white and clean apron, and shee was girded about her body under the paps with a swathell of red silke, and she stirred the pot and turned the meat with her fair and white hands, in such sort that with stirring and turning the same, her loynes and hips did likewise move and shake, which was in my mind a comely sight to see.

Never, in all the years that he had dwelt in Chinatown, had Wing Goy been implicated in anything that savored of crime.

You can be joyful, playful, jocose, give vent to your feelings, but never stoop to low language and, above all, to language savoring in the slightest degree of moral impropriety.

For some miles he rode with the common folk, drinking in their resigned, knobbly faces and savoring the strangeness of it all.

Encountering Joyce we savor the long deliberation behind each of his lexical choices, with the result that our own pace in reading slows right down.

British vessels, but Lind was dead by then and could not savor the victory.

He savored energizing visions of sitting on an Imperial throne, or even better, of replacing Linge Chen on the Commission of Public Safety.