scentnoun
uk/sent/us/sent/B2 [ C ] a pleasant natural smell:
the scent of roses
[ C ] a smell produced by an animal that acts as a signal to other animals:
The hounds had lost the scent of the fox near the river.
[ C or U ] a pleasant-smelling liquid that people put on their skin:
a bottle of scent
Synonym
perfume
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Smells & smelling
- acrid
- aroma
- beery
- bouquet
- cheesy
- foetid
- fragrance
- frowsty
- odour
- putrid
- scratch-and-sniff
- smell somewhere out
- smell sth/sb out
- sniff sth/sb out
- sour
- stagnant
- stench
- stinky
- waft
- woody
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Toiletry & perfumes
Idiom(s)
on the scent
throw/put sb off the scent
scentverb [ T ]
uk/sent/us/sent/If an animal scents something or someone, it knows that person or thing is there because it can smell it, him, or her.
If a person scents something, they have a feeling that they are about to experience it:
Halfway through the game, the team could already scent victory.
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Animal (non-human) behaviour
- accidental
- eusocial
- fledge
- frisk
- lap
- maul
- migrant
- mob
- molt
- nest
- nuzzle
- perch
- prey
- ruminate
- scratch
- shy
- skitter
- slaver 1
- torpor
- trot
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Predicting things and intuition
Idiom(s)
scent blood