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censer

Syllables: cen·serUK/ˈsɛn.sə//ˈsɛn.sɚ/

censer noun: an ornamental container for burning incense, especially during religious ceremonies.

censer: an ornamental container for burning incense, especially during religious ceremonies
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Noun

censer (plural censers)

  1. An ornamental container for burning incense, especially during religious ceremonies.
    • A thousand wax tapers burned in honour of the Madonna. Four beautiful children swung the silver censers before her picture, till a cloud of incense arose and floated in broken masses to the fretted roof, and the whole air was heavy with perfume.1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter X, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 215
    • Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer / Swung by Seraphim whose foot-falls tinkled on the tufted floor.1859 [1845], Edgar Allan Poe, “The Raven”, in The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe, volumes II: Poems and Tales
  2. A person who censes, a person who perfumes with incense.

censer meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Gujarati and Tagalog

censer in Tamil

தூபம்

censer in Bengali

অঙ্গারধানী, ধুনুচি

censer in Gujarati

ornamental container for burning incense
ધૂપિયું dhūpiyũ

censer in Tagalog

ornamental container for burning incense
dupaan, insensaryo
More languagesFewer languages
censer in Arabic
مَبْخَرَة mabḵara
censer in Indonesian
pedupaan, wiruk, turibulum
censer in Vietnamese
lư hương

Synonyms of censer

Forms of censer

pluralcensers

Origin of censer

Inherited from Middle English censer, from Anglo-Norman censier, from Old French encensier, from encens (“incense”).

Words formed from censer

Words that rhyme with censer

4 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about censer

What does censer mean?
Censer means an ornamental container for burning incense, especially during religious ceremonies.
What is censer in Tamil?
Censer in Tamil is தூபம். See Censer meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is censer?
Censer is a noun.
How do you pronounce censer?
Censer is pronounced /ˈsɛn.sə/ (UK).
What is the plural of censer?
The plural of censer is censers.

Words near censer in the dictionary

  1. Cens
  2. censae
  3. censal
  4. cense
  5. censed
  6. censer
  7. censers
  8. censes
  9. censi
  10. censing
  11. censitary

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: censer (page history and authors); censer (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); censer (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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