odour

Alternative forms

• odor (American)

Etymology

From Middle English odour, borrowed from Anglo-Norman odour, from Old French odor, from Latin odor. Related to Swedish odör (“bad smell”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈəʊdə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈoʊdəɹ/

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Noun

odour (plural odours)

1. Any smell, whether fragrant or offensive; scent; perfume.
2. (now rare) 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.

Anagrams

• Douro