odournoun [ C or U ]
UK formal US odor uk/ˈəʊ.dər/us/ˈoʊ.dɚ/C2 a smell, often one that is unpleasant:
Inside the room there was the unmistakable odour of sweaty feet.
figurative The odour of hypocrisy hung about everything she said.
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Smells & smelling
- acrid
- aroma
- beery
- bouquet
- cheesy
- foetid
- fragrance
- frowsty
- putrid
- scratch-and-sniff
- smell somewhere out
- smell sth/sb out
- smelly
- sniff sth/sb out
- sour
- stagnant
- stench
- stinky
- waft
- woody
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