Odour vs Odor - What's the difference?
odour | odor | Alternative forms |
Any smell, whether fragrant or offensive; scent; perfume.
Something which produces a scent; incense, a perfume.
* 1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , Luke XXIV:
Any smell, whether fragrant or offensive; scent; perfume.
* 1895 , H. G. Wells, The Time Machine Chapter X
(figuratively) A strong, pervasive quality.
Esteem; repute.
Odor is a synonym of odour.
Odor is a alternative form of odour.
Odor is a descendant of odour.
Odor is a antonym of odour.
As nouns the difference between odour and odor
is that odour is any smell, whether fragrant or offensive; scent; perfume while odor is any smell, whether fragrant or offensive; scent; perfume.odour
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Alternative forms
* odor (US)Noun
(en noun)- 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.
Derived terms
* body odour, body odor * deodorant * deodorise, deodorize * odoriferous * odourlessodor
English
(wikipedia odor)Alternative forms
* odourNoun
- Now, I still think that for this box of matches to have escaped the wear of time for immemorial years was a strange, and for me, a most fortunate thing. Yet oddly enough I found here a far more unlikely substance, and that was camphor. I found it in a sealed jar, that, by chance, I supposed had been really hermetically sealed. I fancied at first the stuff was paraffin wax, and smashed the jar accordingly. But the odour of camphor was unmistakable.