savor
See also: savôr
English
Noun
savor (plural savors)
- American spelling 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, [...]
- 1900, New York (State) Legislature, Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York, page 774, syllabus of the department of public instruction:
Verb
savor (third-person singular simple present savors, present participle savoring, simple past and past participle savored)
- American spelling 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 ...
- 1915, John Burroughs, The Writings of John Burroughs:
Anagrams
- 'sarvo, Voras, arvos, sarvo
Ido
Verb
savor
- future infinitive of savar
Old French
Noun
savor f (oblique plural savors, nominative singular savor, nominative plural savors)
- Alternative form of savour