odour

• odor (American)

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

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈəʊdə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈoʊdəɹ/

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odour (plural odours)

1. Any smell, whether fragrant or offensive; scent; perfume.
2. (now rare) Something which produces a scent; incense, a perfume.
   • 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Luke XXIV:

     On the morow after the saboth, erly in the mornynge, they cam vnto the toumbe and brought the odoures whych they had prepared, and other wemen wyth them.

• Douro

• odowre, odor, odure, odoure, odyr, oudour, odowr, odir, odur

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman odour, from Latin odor.

• IPA^(key): /ɔːˈduːr/, /ɔˈduːr/, /ˈɔːdur/, /ˈɔːdər/

odour (plural odours)

1. A smell or scent; a nasal sensation (often intrinsic):
   1. A pleasant or appealing smell or scent.
   2. The scent of living matter or substances.
2. (figuratively) A sensation or quality; the feeling produced by something.
3. (rare) The power of discerning scents.

• English: odour, odor
• Scots: odour

• “ō̆dǒur (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-09-01.