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Flavor vs Odour - What's the difference?

flavor | odour |

As nouns the difference between flavor and odour

is that flavor is standard spelling of from=American spelling|lang=en|flavour while odour is any smell, whether fragrant or offensive; scent; perfume.

As a verb flavor

is standard spelling of from=American spelling|lang=en|flavour.

flavor

English

Noun

(en noun)
    • The flavor of this apple pie is delicious.
    Flavor was added to the pudding.
    What flavor of bubble gum do you enjoy?
    the flavor of an experience
    Debian is one flavor of the Linux operating system.

    Verb

    (en verb)

    • odour

    English

    Alternative forms

    * odor (US)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any smell, whether fragrant or offensive; scent; perfume.
  • Something which produces a scent; incense, a perfume.
  • * 1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , Luke XXIV:
    • On the morow after the saboth, erly in the mornynge, they cam vnto the toumbe and brought the odoures whych they had prepared, and other wemen wyth them.

    Derived terms

    * body odour, body odor * deodorant * deodorise, deodorize * odoriferous * odourless