Odor

Quick meaning: Odor is a noun meaning Any smell, whether fragrant or offensive.

Meaning

Any smell, whether fragrant or offensive.

More Meanings

1. (figuratively) A strong, pervasive quality.
2. (figuratively, uncountable) Esteem.
3. (now rare) Something which produces a scent; incense, a perfume.

Example Sentences

On the morowe after the ſaboth / erly in the mornynge / they cam vnto the toumbe and brought the odourſ whych they had prepared / and other wemen wyth them.

In different parts of the coast different species of animals are accounted sacred, because they are supposed to be animated by the spirits of the dead. Hence monkeys near Fishtown, snakes at Whydah, and crocodiles near Dix Cove live in the odour of sanctity."

BioLab officials told the investigators they had established a permanent fire watch two or three months prior to the incident after strong odors from oxidizers in two storage buildings were detected, according to the CSB report. BioLab also told CSB two employees were on duty for fire watch on September 29.

Both chemicals are solid oxidizers in granular form and have a chlorine odor. […] Plant 12 also stored super sacks of bromochloro-5,5-dimethylimidazolidine-2,4-dione (BCDMH), which is a granular solid oxidizer with a halogen odor that, in addition to chlorine gas and hydrogen chloride, can also release bromine gas and hydrogen bromide upon decomposition.

Word Forms

• odors
• odour

Synonyms for odor

Depending on context, synonyms include scent, perfume, flair, smell, odour, esteem.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include odour, scent, smell, aroma, fragrance, olfactory.

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