savor

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English

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Etymology 1

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Noun

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savor (countable and uncountable, plural savors) (chiefly American spelling)

  1. Alternative spelling of savour
    • 1587, Philip of Mornay [i.e., Philippe de Mornay], “That there is a God, and that All Men Agree in the Godhead”, in Philip Sidney, Arthur Golding, transl., A Woorke Concerning the Trewnesse of the Christian Religion, [], London: [] [John Charlewood and] George Robinson for Thomas Cadman, [], →OCLC, page 7:
      [B]y our Sences which conceiue al Colours, Sounds, Sents, Sauors, and Féelings; wée may ſee, heare, ſmell, taſt, and feele, that one ſelfſame workman made both the Sences, and the things that are ſubiect to the Sences.
    • 1594, Christopher Marlow[e], The Troublesome Raigne and Lamentable Death of Edward the Second, King of England: [], London: [] [Eliot’s Court Press] for Henry Bell, [], published 1622, →OCLC, [Act V], signature [L3], recto:
      Matr[euis]. Gurney, I vvonder the king dies not, / Being in a vault vp to the knees in vvater, / To vvhich the channels of the caſtell runne, / [] / Gurn[ey]. And ſo do I, Matreuis: yeſternight / I opened but the doore to throvv him meate, / And I vvas almoſt ſtifeled vvith the ſauor.
    • 1649, Richard Baxter, “What Affections Must be Acted, and by what Considerations and Obje[c]ts, and in what Order”, in The Saints Everlasting Rest: Or, A Treatise of the Blessed State of the Saints in Their Enjoyment of God in Glory. [], London: [] Rob[ert] White, for Thomas Underhil and Francis Tyton, [], →OCLC, part IV, section 9, paragraph 5, page 747:
      [W]hy is not my life a continual Joy? and the ſavor of Heaven perpetually upon my ſpirit?
    • 1896 March 16, Charles R[ufus] Skinner, “[Exhibit No. 16: Teachers’ Training Classes.] Regulations for Teachers’ Training Classes.”, in Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York, One Hundred and Twentieth Session, volume XVII, number 71, part II, Albany; New York, N.Y.: Wynkoop Hallenbeck Crawford Co., state printers, published 1897, →OCLC, section XIII (Syllabus), pages 848 and 849:
      [page 848] Taste, gives knowledge of the savors of material things. [] [page 849] The primary facts of knowledge, form, color, sound, weight, savor, odor, etc., can be obtained only by the direct action of material things upon the senses and cannot be taught from books.

Etymology 2

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Verb

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

  1. Alternative spelling of savour
Conjugation
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Anagrams

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Ido

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Verb

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savor

  1. future infinitive of savar

Lombard

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Etymology

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

Noun

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savor

  1. taste

Old French

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Noun

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

  1. Alternative form of savour

Romanian

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Noun

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savor m (plural savori)

  1. Obsolete form of samur.

Declension

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References

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