odour
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- odor (US)
Etymology[edit]
From Anglo-Norman and Old French odur, odor, odour, from Latin odor.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
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:
Translations[edit]
Any smell, whether fragrant or offensive; scent; perfume
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