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Savory vs Flavour - What's the difference?

savory | flavour |

As nouns the difference between savory and flavour

is that savory is a savory snack while flavour is the quality produced by the sensation of taste or, especially, of taste and smell in combined effect.

As an adjective savory

is tasty, attractive to the palate.

As a verb flavour is

to add flavouring to something.

savory

English

(wikipedia savory)

Alternative forms

* savoury (British)

Etymology 1

From the (etyl) savoure, from savourer, from (etyl) saporare, from sapor

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Tasty, attractive to the palate.
    • The fine restaurant presented an array of savory dishes; each was delicious.
  • Salty or non-sweet.
    • The mushrooms, meat, bread, rice, peanuts and potatoes were all good savory foods.
  • Not overly sweet.
    • The savory duck contrasted well with the sweet sauce.
  • (figuratively) Morally or ethically acceptable.
    • Readers are to be warned that quotations in this chapter contain some not so savory language.
    Synonyms
    * See also

    Noun

    (savories)
  • A snack.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2007, date=April 18, author=Florence Fabricant, title=Off the Menu, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=P*ONG On Friday the pastry chef Pichet Ong will open his own cafe, with sweets and savories served at tables and a counter. }}

    Etymology 2

    (Satureja) Possibly from (etyl) saetherie, from (etyl) satureia, influenced by or via (etyl) savereie

    Noun

    (savories)
  • Any of several Mediterranean herbs, of the genus , grown as culinary flavourings.
  • The leaves of these plants used as a flavouring.
    • Derived terms
    * summer savory * winter savory

    flavour

    English

    (wikipedia flavour)

    Alternative forms

    * flavor (American spelling)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The quality produced by the sensation of taste or, especially, of taste and smell in combined effect.
    • The flavour of this apple pie is delicious.
  • A substance used to produce a taste. Flavouring.
    • Flavour was added to the pudding.
  • A variety (of taste) attributed to an object.
    • What flavour of bubble gum do you enjoy?
  • The characteristic quality of something.
    • the flavour of an experience
  • (informal) A kind or type.
    • Debian is one flavour of the Linux operating system.
  • (physics) One of the six types of quarks (top, bottom, strange, charmed, up, and down) or three types of leptons (electron, muon, and tauon).
  • (archaic) The quality produced by the sensation of smell; odour; fragrance.
    • the flavour of a rose

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To add flavouring to something.

    • Derived terms

    * flavoured * flavourful * flavouring * flavourless * flavour of the month * flavour of the week * flavoursome

    See also

    * gustatory * gustation