Definition of "savor" [sa•vor]

• The taste or smell of something. (noun)
• A specific taste or smell. See Synonyms at taste. (noun)
• A distinctive quality or sensation: enjoying the savor of victory. (noun)
• To have a particular taste or smell: a dish that savors of curry. (verb-intransitive)
• To exhibit a specified quality or characteristic; smack: postures that savored of vanity. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Though the film never amounts to much, there are a number of wry, memorable moments to savor from the movie."
• "Bad savor is endurable in oil, but not in what professes to be, and is compounded by the perfumer ( "apothecary") for, fragrance."
• "The English word was influenced by the unrelated word savor, the French word shows the addition of the diminutive suffix, - ette, the Italian word was confused with santo, ` sacred, 'and the Spanish word, coming from Latin influenced by Arabic, preserves the Arabic definite article, a (l) -."