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# savoury

«savoury» in Mova's school dictionary: **salty or spicy, not sweet, like cheese, crisps, pies or soup** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (savoury — UK; savory — US); noun (a savoury, savouries — UK)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Savoury food is salty or spicy, not sweet, like cheese, crisps, pies or soup. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/savoury/#m1)

2) A savoury (UK) is a small salty snack. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/savoury/#m2)

3) «Not very savoury» describes something or someone not nice or not respectable. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/savoury/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In cooking and food lessons, dishes are sorted into sweet and savoury. Taste words in science: sweet, sour, salty, bitter and savoury (umami). Phrases: «sweet or savoury?», «savoury snacks», «a savoury pie», «unsavoury character».

### examples

- Would you like a sweet or a savoury pancake? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/savoury/#x1)
- Cheese scones are savoury. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/savoury/#x2)
- Crisps and nuts are savoury snacks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/savoury/#x3)
- The party had savoury food first, then cake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/savoury/#x4)
- This pie is savoury — it has chicken in it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/savoury/#x5)
- He was an unsavoury character, so we stayed away. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/savoury/#x6)
- ‘I declare I smell a savoury dinner.’ [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/savoury/#x7)

### note

UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand spelling «savoury»; US spelling «savory». Opposite of sweet (in food). «Unsavoury» = unpleasant or not honest.

### In the corpora

- [Taste buds for sweet, salty, sour, bitter and savoury (umami) are found all over the tongue.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/34-brain-nerves-senses/4/)
- [The tongue can sense sweet, salty, sour, bitter and savoury (umami).](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/34-brain-nerves-senses/13/)
- [Bring me venison, and make me savoury food, that I may eat, and bless thee before the LORD before my death.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.780/)
- [And she gave the savoury food and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.790/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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