scent

Meaning

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) A distinctive smell.
2. (countable, uncountable) A smell left by an animal that may be used for tracing.
3. (countable, uncountable) The sense of smell.
4. (uncountable) A substance (usually liquid) created to provide a pleasant smell.
5. (countable, figuratively, uncountable) Any trail or trace that can be followed to find something or someone, such as the paper left behind in a paperchase.
6. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) Sense, perception.

Verb

1. (transitive) To detect the scent of; to discern by the sense of smell.
2. (ambitransitive) To inhale in order to detect the scent of (something).
3. (figuratively, transitive) To have a suspicion of; to detect the possibility of (something).
4. (transitive) To impart an odour to, to cause to have a particular smell.
5. (intransitive, obsolete) To have a smell; (figuratively) to give an impression (of something).
6. To hunt animals by means of the sense of smell.

Synonyms

smell

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perfume

odour

odor

fragrance

aroma

sniff

wind

sweet smell

nose

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trail

taste

clue

sense

key

🔑

smack

flavor

odorize

hint

incense

relish

savor

essence

feel

fume

fumigate

snuff

nose out

suspect

sweetness

tang

tincture

tinge

olfaction

track

flair

whiff

zest

body odor

good smell

odourise

olfactory property

make fragrant

perceive an odour

odor

odour

aromatize

attar

balm

blemish

Translations

odeur

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profumo

Duft

parfum

odore

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geur

Geruch

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olor

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cheiro

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perfume

reuk

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odor

lucht

aroma

Pronounced as (IPA)

/sɛnt/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: sent

Cognate with Dutch: zin

Cognate with German: Sinn

Cognate with Low German: Sinn

Cognate with Luxembourgish: Sënn

Cognate with Saterland Frisian: Sin

Cognate with Western Frisian: sin

In summary

From Middle English sent (noun) and senten (verb), from Old French sentir (“to feel, perceive, smell, sense”), from Latin sentīre (“to feel, sense”). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sent- (“to feel”), and thus related to Saterland Frisian Sin (“sense”), West Frisian sin (“sense”), Dutch zin (“sense, meaning”), Low German Sinn (“sense”), Luxembourgish Sënn (“sense, perception”), German Sinn (“sense”). The -c- appeared in the 17th century, possibly by influence of ascent, descent, etc., or by influence of science.

Sentences

It was better than the scent of the hookahs .