transitive verb. 1 : to give flavor to : season. 2a : to have experience of : taste. b : to taste or smell with pleasure : relish. c : to delight in : enjoy savoring the moment.

If you savor an experience, you enjoy it as much as you can. She savored her newfound freedom. If you savor food or drink, you eat or drink it slowly in order to taste its full flavor and to enjoy it properly.

2 the quality of being delicious. the wonderful savor of Mom’s apple pie.

to enjoy food or an experience slowly, in order to enjoy it as much as possible: It was the first chocolate he’d tasted for over a year, so he savoured every mouthful.

They are the same word. The British spell it “savour”, with a ‘u’, and the Americans spell it without the ‘u’.

10 Steps to Savoring the Good Things in Life

1. Share your good feelings with others.
2. Take a mental photograph.
3. Congratulate yourself.
4. Sharpen your sensory perceptions.
5. Shout it from the rooftops.
6. Compare the outcome to something worse.
7. Get absorbed in the moment.
8. Avoid killjoy thinking.

Related topics: Odours, Tastessavour2 British English, savor American English noun [singular, uncountable] formal 1 a pleasant taste or smell the sweet savour of wood smoke2 ENJOY/LIKE DOING somethinginterest and enjoyment Life seemed to have lost its savour for him.

As verbs the difference between savor and savour is that savor is to possess a particular taste or smell, or a distinctive quality while savour is to possess a particular taste or smell, or a distinctive quality.

Savor sentence example

1. I don’t intend to savor it, she warned.
2. Savor it and stash it in your memory for safekeeping.
3. Try to really slow down and savor your dinner to enjoy it better.
4. Now she wanted to savor some memories.
5. “Sweet,” he whispered, closing his eyes to savor her.

derive or receive pleasure from; get enjoyment from; take pleasure in.

1. The best smell is bread, the best savour salt, the best love that of children.
2. His political views have a savour of fanaticism.
3. The soup has a savour of onion.
4. His recent comments savour of hypocrisy.
5. Her remarks savour of hypocrisy.

Savoring is about learning to live presently, to fully enjoy the gift of each moment, to give that moment the space and attention it deserves. It takes practice, but it’s a delicious practice. ‘As you walk and eat and travel, be where you are. Otherwise you will miss most of your life.’ ~Buddha.

The noun SAVOR has 1 sense: 1. the taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth. Familiarity information: SAVOR used as a noun is very rare. • SAVOR (verb) The verb SAVOR has 4 senses: 1. derive or receive pleasure from; get enjoyment from; take pleasure in.

savor – give taste to. savour. cookery , cooking, preparation – the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat; “cooking can be a great art”; “people are needed who have experience in cookery”; “he left the preparation of meals to his wife”.

Savoriness (also spelled savouriness ) is a quality of food that deals with a rich, salty flavor, as contrasted with sweetness, which is a sugary flavor.

What is the adjective for savor? Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs savor and savour which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts. Tasty, attractive to the palate. Salty and/or spicy, but not sweet. (figuratively) Morally or ethically acceptable.