odour (countable anduncountable,pluralodours)
- British standard spelling ofodor.
1944 November and December, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—II”, inRailway Magazine, page343: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 ofodours in the brass foundry.
Borrowed fromAnglo-Normanodour, fromLatinodor.
- IPA(key): /ɔːˈduːr/,/ɔˈduːr/,/ˈɔːdur/,/ˈɔːdər/
odour (pluralodours)
- Asmell orscent; 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.
