odour
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English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English odour, borrowed from Anglo-Norman odour, from Old French odor, from Latin odor. Related to Swedish odör (“bad smell”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]odour (countable and uncountable, plural odours)
- (British spelling) Alternative form 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.
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[edit]Middle English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Anglo-Norman odour, from Latin odor.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]odour (plural odours)
- A smell or scent; a nasal sensation (often intrinsic):
- A pleasant or appealing smell or scent.
- The scent of living matter or substances.
- (figurative) A sensation or quality; the feeling produced by something.
- (rare) The power of discerning scents.
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “ō̆dǒur, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-09-01.
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