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Definition
to take great pleasure from; or the pleasure or flavor enjoyedMore rarely, savory can refer to an aroma or flavor that is not sweet, or to a specific spice of the mint family or related plants.
Even more rarely, savor can mean to have traces of — as when Alexander Hamilton wrote "Its situation must always savor of weakness."
- Savor the soup.
savor = take pleasure from
- She savored every moment they spent together.
- Since his wife died, life had lost its savor.
- She savored every minute of the trip.
- Judge Taylor savored his Sunday night hour alone in his big house, and churchtime found him holed up in his study reading the writings of Bob Taylor (no kin, but the judge would have been proud to claim it).Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird
- She leaned back on her chair, beaming, as if remembering something savory.Victor Martinez -- Parrot in the Oven
- When he ate, he savored every bite as if it were the last he would ever eat.Ben Mikaeslen -- Touching Spirit Bear
- The Witch, mouth wide, savoring doom,Ray Bradbury -- Something Wicked This Way Comes
- She'd have to savor the moment only in her memory.W. William Winokur -- The Perfect Game
- Either way, he seemed to savor life more fully than others appeared to, and that was what had first attracted her to him.Nicholas Sparks -- The Notebook
- I watch the officer closely as I slowly eat my cookies. I savor them as long as I can. I don't know when I will be eating again.Dave Pelzer -- A Child Called It
- When she's alone, she savors her apartment of high ceilings and windows that let in the sky, the new carpeting and walls white as typing paper, the walk-in pantry with empty shelves, her bedroom without a door, her office with its typewriter, and the big front-room windows with their view of a street, rooftops, trees, and the dizzy traffic of the Kennedy Expressway.Sandra Cisneros -- The House on Mango Street
- The deepest joys of eating come when we slow down to savor our food and share it with people welove.Michael Pollan -- The Omnivore's Dilemma
- I take my time going uphill, savoring the feel of grass on my knuckles.Katherine Applegate -- The One and Only Ivan
- Without any ritual, without ceremony, they savored the warm bread and shared the wine and laughed about the stranger moments of the weekend.William P. Young -- The Shack
- Pollard let Seabiscuit savor this last rival, then asked him again.Laura Hillenbrand -- Seabiscuit
- And then by and by, Linnie had just seemed to stop savoring the sight of him.Anne Tayler -- A Spool of Blue Thread
- We stand there for a moment, staring at each other, savoring it.Gayle Forman -- Where She Went
- I remember the burnt sugar sweet, the sharp savoury that followed.Daphne du Maurier -- Rebecca
- They savour of the heretical views of the Anabaptists, views that I have completely refuted in four of my unpublished sermons.Oscar Wilde -- The Importance of Being Earnest
savored = took great pleasure from
savored = took great pleasure from
savory = flavorful in a delightful way
savored = took great pleasure from (relished)
savoring = taking great pleasure from
savor = relish
savor = to relish (take great pleasure from)
savor = relish (take great pleasure from)
savors = takes great pleasure from
(editor's note: This is a British spelling. Americans use savory.)