odor

CEFRB1

/ˈəʊdə/

noun

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01
noun
A smell, especially one that is unpleasant.
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noun
Extra detail
A strong, pervasive quality.

Examples

A pungent, salty odor wafted from the kitchen.
Bees communicate the location of food by carrying odor samples back to the hive.

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Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Senses: 4
Parts of speech: 1
Citations: 4
Synonyms: 5

Also pronounced

/ˈoʊdəɹ/

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noun

Extra meanings

Any smell, whether fragrant or offensive.
Something which produces a scent; incense, a perfume.

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Garlic gives off a strong odor.
On the morowe after the ſaboth / erly in the mornynge / they cam vnto the toumbe and brought the odourſ whych they had prepared / and other wemen wyth them.

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Now, I still think that for this box of matches to have escaped the wear of time for immemorial years was a strange, and for me, a most fortunate thing. Yet oddly enough I found here a far more unlikely substance, and that was camphor. I found it in a sealed jar, that, by chance, I supposed had been really hermetically sealed. I fancied at first the stuff was paraffin wax, and smashed the jar accordingly. But the odour of camphor was unmistakable.
1895 May 29, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, chapter X, in The Time Machine: An Invention, London: William Heinemann, →OCLC
BioLab officials told the investigators they had established a permanent fire watch two or three months prior to the incident after strong odors from oxidizers in two storage buildings were detected, according to the CSB report. BioLab also told CSB two employees were on duty for fire watch on September 29.
2024 November 24, Chris Boyette, “Investigators release update on BioLab chemical plant fire probe”, in CNN, archived from the original on 30 Aug 2025
In different parts of the coast different species of animals are accounted sacred, because they are supposed to be animated by the spirits of the dead. Hence monkeys near Fishtown, snakes at Whydah, and crocodiles near Dix Cove live in the odour of sanctity."
1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 8, page 287
On the morowe after the ſaboth / erly in the mornynge / they cam vnto the toumbe and brought the odourſ whych they had prepared / and other wemen wyth them.
1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, The Gospell off S. Luke xxiiij:[1], folio cxvii, recto

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Origin

noun

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

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noun

The rotten eggs gave off a terrible blank that filled the entire kitchen.