Odor
['odɚ]
Definition
(n.) Any smell, whether fragrant or offensive; scent; perfume.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Scent (good or bad), smell, perfume, fragrance, redolence.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Smell, scent, fragrance, perfume, redolence, effluvium, fume, trail, nidor
ANT:inodorousness, absence_of_smell, want_of_smell
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of inhaling sweet odors, is a sign of a beautiful woman ministering to your daily life, and successful financiering. To smell disgusting odors, foretells unpleasant disagreements and unreliable servants.
Editor: Pratt
Examples
- If a gas jet is turned on and not lighted, an odor of gas soon becomes perceptible, not only throughout the room, but in adjacent halls and even in distant rooms. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The odor is not unpleasant, and is quickly removed by airing the room. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- If there be an odor it must be a definite odor. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- I venture to suggest that much of what is called corruption is the odor of a decaying political system done to death by an economic growth. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The odor of the ground in the spring after rain? Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- They would fly in horror from him as a vile thing, a beautiful flower, whose appearance is exquisite, yet whose odor is death. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- He smelled the odor of the pine boughs under him, the piney smell of the crushed needles and the sharper odor of the resinous sap from the cut limbs. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Mix, and perfume with cologne, lavender, or any desired odor. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Unfortunately, Mr. Davis particularly detested the odor of the fashionable pickle, and disgust added to his wrath. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Treatment with carbolic acid also leaves a most objectionable odor, especially in fine leather goods. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- But I will get the odor as they pass without kissing one. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- That must be the odor of nostalgia, the smell of the smoke from the piles of raked leaves burning in the streets in the fall in Missoula. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Like many other species of this genus, the ermine has the faculty of ejecting a fluid of a musky odor. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- That was the odor of the cactus flowers, mimosa and the sea-grape shrubs. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The liquid is a combination of organic materials with an aromatic odor and high specific gravity. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- I expected that the spiced odors of Araby were going to steal over my senses now, but they did not. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Far below Eunice heard the musical splash of the fountains, and the chill odors of flowers floated upward, as though drawn by the spell of her beauty. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Device for examining combinations of odors and their changes by rotation at different speeds. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I mounted it, and vaguely expected the odors of Araby a gain. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- They shed no entrancing odors --just the contrary. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
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