scent
noun /sent/
/sent/
Idioms - [uncountable, countable] the pleasant smell that something has
- The air was filled with the scent of wild flowers.
- These flowers have no scent.
Homophones cent | scent | sentcent scent sent/sent//sent/- cent noun
- Not one cent of their profits goes to charity.
- scent noun
- The delicious scent of freshly baked bread floated to his window.
- sent noun (past tense, past participle of send)
- I sent her a thank you letter.
Extra Examples- From the vine outside came the scent of honey.
- The air was filled with the scent of lilac.
- The flowers give off a heady scent at night.
- The scent of incense lingered in the air.
- Apple blossom has a delicate scent.
- the heavy scent of Indian cooking
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- heady
- heavy
- intoxicating
- …
- have
- be filled with
- give off
- …
- come
- drift
- waft
- …
- [uncountable, countable, usually singular] the smell that a person or an animal leaves behind and that other animals such as dogs can follow synonym trail
- The dogs must have lost her scent.
- The hounds were now on the scent of (= following the smell of) the fox.
Extra Examples- The dog was on the scent of a rabbit.
- The hounds have the scent.
- The cat had left its scent on the sofa.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- body
- human
- masculine
- …
- be on
- have
- leave
- …
- gland
- mark
- marking
- …
- [uncountable] (especially British English) a liquid with a pleasant smell that you wear on your skin to make it smell nice synonym perfume (1), fragrance (2)
- a bottle of scent
- She dabbed some scent on her neck.
- She reeked of cheap scent.
- [singular] scent of something the feeling that something is present or is going to happen very soon
- The scent of victory was in the air.
- There is an unmistakeable scent of recovery in the air.
Word Originlate Middle English (denoting the sense of smell): from Old French sentir ‘perceive, smell’, from Latin sentire. The addition of -c- (in the 17th cent.) is unexplained.
Idioms
on the scent (of something)
- close to discovering something
- Scientists are on the scent of a cure.
put/throw somebody off the scent
- to do something to stop somebody from finding you or discovering something
- She changed taxis to throw her pursuers off the scent.