scent

[ sent ]

/ sɛnt /

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noun

a distinctive odor, especially when agreeable: the scent of roses.

an odor left in passing, by means of which an animal or person may be traced.

a track or trail as or as if indicated by such an odor: The dogs lost the scent and the prisoner escaped.

perfume.

the sense of smell: a remarkably keen scent.

small pieces of paper dropped by the hares in the game of hare and hounds.

verb (used with object)

to perceive or recognize by or as if by the sense of smell: to scent trouble.

to fill with an odor; perfume.

verb (used without object)

to hunt by the sense of smell, as a hound.

Origin of scent

1325–75; (v.) earlier sent, Middle English senten < Middle French sentir to smell < Latin sentīre to feel; (noun) Middle English, derivative of the v. Cf. sense

SYNONYMS FOR scent

1 See odor.

7 smell, sniff.

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OTHER WORDS FROM scent

scent·less, adjective scent·less·ness, noun non·scent·ed, adjective out·scent, verb (used with object)

o·ver·scent·ed, adjective un·scent·ed, adjective well-scent·ed, adjective

WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH scent

cents scents sense

Words nearby scent

scenery, scenic, scenic railway, scenic reserve, scenography, scent, scent gland, scent mark, scent-mark, scented orchid, scepter

Example sentences from the Web for scentless

All its vigorous and hardy descendants are scentless save the Gem of the Prairies.

Old-Time Gardens |Alice Morse Earle
They were scentless; the climate which supplies the orange blossom with intense odors exhausts the fragrance of the rose.

Letters of a Traveller |William Cullen Bryant
It was as invisible as the wind, as scentless as a star, as complete as birth or death.

The Precipice |Elia Wilkinson Peattie
Cowslips and wild hyacinths were in flower upon its banks, and blue violets as scentless as our own.

Letters of a Traveller |William Cullen Bryant

They are not curious in colours, and do not know which flowers are fragrant and which are scentless.

Mary's Meadow |Juliana Horatia Ewing

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scent

/ (sɛnt) /

noun

a distinctive smell, esp a pleasant one

a smell left in passing, by which a person or animal may be traced

a trail, clue, or guide

an instinctive ability for finding out or detecting

another word (esp Brit) for perfume

verb

(tr) to recognize or be aware of by or as if by the smell

(tr) to have a suspicion of; detect I scent foul play

(tr) to fill with odour or fragrance

(intr) (of hounds, etc) to hunt by the sense of smell

to smell (at) the dog scented the air

Derived forms of scent

scented, adjective scentless, adjective scentlessness, noun

Word Origin for scent

C14: from Old French sentir to sense, from Latin sentīre to feel; see sense

Idioms and Phrases with scentless

scent

see throw off, def. 3.

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verb (used with object)

verb (used without object)

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