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odour - What does it mean?

Definition of 'odour'

English

Alternative forms

* odor (US)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • Any smell, whether fragrant or offensive; scent; perfume.
  • 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.

    Derived terms

    * body odour, body odor * deodorant * deodorise, deodorize * odoriferous * odourless

    Similar to 'odour'

    other, otter, odor, oater, outer, odder, outher, ottar, oatier