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Definition of Savor

Savor

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.

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

Sense of smell; power to scent, or trace by scent.

Pleasure; delight; attractiveness.

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

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

To use the sense of taste.

To perceive by the smell or the taste; hence, to perceive; to note.

To have the flavor or quality of; to indicate the presence of.

To taste or smell with pleasure; to delight in; to relish; to like; to favor.

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Savor Quotations

We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The heart of marriage is memories; and if the two of you happen to have the same ones and can savor your reruns, then your marriage is a gift from the gods.
Bill Cosby

No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
Michel de Montaigne

There's an ancient tension between wanting to savor the world as it is and wanting to improve on the world as given.
Leon Kass

Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.
George Herbert

I had all of one nanosecond to savor the news before we had to move on to other problems.
Warren Christopher

Old #64 chose... a gentle jog, fast enough to prove I was alive, slow enough to savor the cheers. They washed over me. They warmed me. I knew I could live without them but I loved them.
Jerry Kramer

Because of the fact that we've been through so much, we're going to appreciate every step of being parents. I think we're going to savor it and cherish it and we're going to be the best parents we can be.
Bill Rancic

Country people do not behave as if they think life is short; they live on the principle that it is long, and savor variations of the kind best appreciated if most days are the same.
Edward Hoagland

To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.
Clifton Paul Fadiman