Meanings
plural odours
- countableuncountableUK standard spelling of odor.
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 of odours in the brass foundry.
1944 November and December, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—II”, in Railway Magazine, page 343
Synonyms & antonyms
nounthe sensation that results when olfactory receptors in the nose are stimulated by particular chemicals in gaseous form
nounany property detected by the olfactory system
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
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odour. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/odour
“odour.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/odour. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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