different between saviour vs savour

English

Noun

saviour (plural saviours)

1. Britain and Canada spelling of savior

Anagrams

• various

English

Alternative forms

• savor (chiefly US)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?se?v?(?)/
• Rhymes: -e?v?(r)

Etymology 1

From Middle English savour, from Old French savour, from Latin sapor (“taste, flavor”), from sapi? (“taste of, have a flavor of”).

Noun

savour (plural savours) (British spelling)

1. The specific taste or smell of something.
   • 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet, Ch.5:

     He held out to me a bowl of steaming broth, that filled the room with a savour sweeter, ten thousand times, to me than every rose and lily of the world; yet would not let me drink it at a gulp, but made me sip it with a spoon like any baby.

   • Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to "Chat of the Social World," gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl's intelligence. She devoured with more avidity than she had her food those pretentiously phrased chronicles of the snobocracy […] distilling therefrom an acid envy that robbed her napoleon of all its savour.

2. A distinctive sensation.
   • 1650, Richard Baxter, The Saints Everlasting Rest

     Why is not my life a continual joy, and the savour of heaven perpetually upon my spirit?

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

   • beyond my savour

4. Pleasure; appreciation; relish.

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English savour, from Old French savourer, from savour, or possibly Late Latin sap?r?re, present active infinitive of sap?r?, from sapor (“taste, flavor”), from sapi? (“taste of, have a flavor of”).

Verb

savour (third-person singular simple present savours, present participle savouring, simple past and past participle savoured) (British spelling)

1. (intransitive) To possess a particular taste or smell, or a distinctive quality.
   • I have rejected everything that savours of party.

   • 1750, Joseph Bellamy, True Religion Delineated

     Begone, thou impudent wretch, to hell, thy proper place: thou art a despiser of my glorious majesty, and your frame of spirit savours of blasphemy.

2. (transitive) To appreciate, enjoy or relish something.

3. (transitive, archaic) To season.
   • 1974, W. R. Barron, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (modern translation)

     […] divers sorts of fish; some baked in bread, some broiled on the coals, some seethed, some in gravy savoured with spices, and all with condiments so cunning that it caused him delight.

Translations

Anagrams

• varous

Old French

Etymology

From Latin sapor, sap?rem.

Noun

savour m (oblique plural savours, nominative singular savours, nominative plural savour)

1. taste

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:savour.

Derived terms

• savourer

Descendants

• French: saveur
• ? Middle English: savour
  • English: savour, savor