savour

«savour» in Mova's school dictionary: The taste or smell of something, especially good food — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (savours); verb (savour, savours, savoured, savouring)

meaning for a pupil

1) (noun) The taste or smell of something, especially good food. tree →

2) (verb) To enjoy something slowly, taking time over every bit of it. tree →

3) (old use) To savour of something is to have a hint or sign of it: «savours of treason» means smells of treason. tree →

sense in the lessons

in fairy tales «the savour of the world» means all its feel and taste; «savours of» means has the look or feel of something, often something bad

examples

• There is more savour in the fruit. tree →
• I stood breathing all the savour of the world. tree →
• Savour every bite of the cake. tree →
• This plan savours of treason. tree →

note

nothing for maths

In the corpora

• Can that which hath no savour be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the juice of mallows?

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «savour» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.