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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/savour/#m1)

2) (verb) To enjoy something slowly, taking time over every bit of it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/savour/#m2)

3) (old use) To savour of something is to have a hint or sign of it: «savours of treason» means smells of treason. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/savour/#m3)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/savour/#x1)
- I stood breathing all the savour of the world. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/savour/#x2)
- Savour every bite of the cake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/savour/#x3)
- This plan savours of treason. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/savour/#x4)

### 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?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.123/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «savour» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/savour/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.