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redolent | echoes |

As an adjective redolent

is fragrant or aromatic; having a sweet scent.

As a noun echoes is

.

As a verb echoes is

(echo).

redolent

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Fragrant or aromatic; having a sweet scent.
  • Having the smell of the article in question.
  • * 1861 , , ch. 32:
  • His breath is already redolent of whiskey.
  • * , Episode 16:
  • Stephen, that is when the accosting figure came to close quarters, though he was not in an over sober state himself recognised Corley's breath redolent of rotten cornjuice.
  • (idiomatic) Suggestive or reminiscent.
  • * 1919 , :
  • But forth from sweat-shops, tenement and prison
    Wailed minor protests, redolent with pain.
  • * 1926 , :
  • He said that the geometry of the dream-place he saw was abnormal, non-Euclidean, and loathsomely redolent of spheres and dimensions apart from ours.''

    Synonyms

    * (fragrant or aromatic) aromatic, fragrant * (having the smell of) reeking, smelling * (suggestive or reminiscent) reminiscent, suggestive

    Derived terms

    * redolently

    Anagrams

    * ----

    echoes

    English

    Noun

    (head)
  • Verb

    (head)
  • (echo)