odour
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Etymology
From Middle English odour, borrowed from Anglo-Norman odour, from Old French odor, from Latin odor. Related to Swedish odör (“bad smell”).
Pronunciation
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Noun
odour (plural odours)
- Any smell, whether fragrant or offensive; scent; perfume.
- (now rare) Something which produces a scent; incense, a perfume.
- 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Luke XXIV:
- On the morow after the saboth, erly in the mornynge, they cam vnto the toumbe and brought the odoures whych they had prepared, and other wemen wyth them.
- 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Luke XXIV:
Derived terms
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Translations
Any smell, whether fragrant or offensive; scent; perfume
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Middle English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Anglo-Norman odour, from Latin odor.
Pronunciation
- (deprecated use of
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parameter) IPA(key): /ɔːˈduːr/, /ɔˈduːr/, /ˈɔːdur/, /ˈɔːdər/
Noun
odour (plural odours)
- A smell or scent; a nasal sensation (often intrinsic):
- A pleasant or appealing smell or scent.
- The scent of living matter or substances.
- (figurative) A sensation or quality; the feeling produced by something.
- (rare) The power of discerning scents.
Descendants
References
- “ō̆dǒur (n.)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-09-01.
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