odor
pronunciation
How to pronounce odor in British English:
UK [ˈəʊdə]
How to pronounce odor in American English:
US [ˈoʊdər]
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- Noun:
- any property detected by the olfactory system
- the sensation that results when olfactory receptors in the nose are stimulated by particular chemicals in gaseous form
Word Origin
- odor (n.)
- c. 1300, from Anglo-French odour, from Old French odor "smell, perfume, fragrance" (12c., Modern French odeur) and directly from Latin odor "a smell, a scent" (pleasant or disagreeable), from PIE *od- "to smell" (cognates: Latin olere "emit a smell, to smell of," with Sabine -l- for -d-; Greek ozein "to smell;" Armenian hotim "I smell;" Lithuanian uodziu "to smell"). Good or bad odor, in reference to repute, estimation, is from 1835. Odor of sanctity (1756) is from French odeur de sainteté (17c.) "sweet or balsamic scent said to be exhaled by the bodies of eminent saints at death or upon disinterment."
Example
- 1. That smell is body odor and everyone gets it .
- 2. That is what the odor on his coat may be .
- 3. Normal discharge should have only a slight odor and should never cause itching or burning .
- 4. The odor is terrible -- like a combination of rotten eggs and ammonia .
- 5. In the variation between preferences and descriptions , we see some of the way that odor can capture our imagination .