odour - Wiktionary, the free dictionary (original) (raw)

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• 1 English
  • 1.1 Noun
    * 1.1.1 Derived terms
  • 1.2 Anagrams
• 2 Middle English
  • 2.1 Alternative forms
  • 2.2 Etymology
  • 2.3 Pronunciation
  • 2.4 Noun
    * 2.4.1 Descendants
    * 2.4.2 References

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odour (countable and uncountable, plural odours)

1. UK standard spelling of odor.
   • 1944 November and December, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—II”, in Railway Magazine, page 343:
     So after learning a great deal about iron founding and much more about pike fishing, one regretfully took leave of a shop full of kindly characters and proceeded to a worse lot of odours in the brass foundry.

• body odour

• deodourise

• malodour

• odourless

• odour of sanctity

• odourprint

• odourproof

• odourscape

• odoursome

• Douro

• odowre, odor, odure, odoure, odyr, oudour, odowr, odir, odur

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman odour, from Latin odor.

• IPA(key): /ɔːˈduːr/, /ɔˈduːr/, /ˈɔːdur/, /ˈɔːdər/

odour (plural odours)

1. A smell or scent; a nasal sensation (often intrinsic):
   1. A pleasant or appealing smell or scent.
   2. The scent of living matter or substances.
2. (figurative) A sensation or quality; the feeling produced by something.
3. (rare) The power of discerning scents.

• English: odour, odor
• Scots: odour
• “ō̆dǒur, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 1 September 2018.

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