fragrance
/ˈfɹeɪɡɹən(t)s/
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obsolete/ˈfɹæ.ɡɹəns/
fragrance noun: a pleasant smell or odour.
Noun
fragrance (countable and uncountable, plural fragrances)
- A pleasant smell or odour.
- You could just use ordinary shop-bought kecap manis to marinade the meat, but making your own is easy, has a far more elegant fragrance and is, above all, such a great brag! Flavouring kecap manis is an intensely personal thing, so try this version now and next time cook the sauce down with...2015 October 27, Matt Preston, The Simple Secrets to Cooking Everything Better, Plum, →ISBN, page 192
- Synonyms:
- aroma
- A perfume.
- Today, sales of women's fragrances are double those of men's, and 80 percent of all men's after-shaves and colognes are in fact bought by women, as gifts.1987 October, Timothy Kalich, “Marketing: What's in a Smell?”, in The Atlantic, →ISSN
Verb
fragrance (third-person singular simple present fragrances, present participle fragrancing, simple past and past participle fragranced)
- To apply a fragrance to; to perfume.
fragrance meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
fragrance in Hindi
- pleasant smell or odour
- परिमल parimal, इत्र itra, अतर atar, महक mahak, गंध gandh, सुगंध sugandh
fragrance in Tamil
- pleasant smell or odour
- மணம் maṇam, நறுமணம் naṟumaṇam, நறுநாற்றம் naṟunāṟṟam
fragrance in Marathi
- fragrance, aroma, any pleasant smell
- सुगंध sugandha
- fragrance, pleasant smell, sweet odour
- सुवास suvās
fragrance in Urdu
- fragrance
- مہک mahak, عطر itr
- fragrance; an act of fragrancing
- مہکار mahakār
- fragrance, scent; odor, aroma
- خوشبو xūśbū
- fragrance, scent
- دودمان dūdmān
More languagesFewer languages
- fragrance in Bengali
- খোশবু khośbu, মহক mohok
- fragrance in Telugu
- పరిమళము parimaḷamu, వాడ vāḍa
- fragrance in Malayalam
- വാസന, സുഗന്ധം
- fragrance in Kannada
- ಪರಿಮಳ parimaḷa, ಗಂಧ gandha
- fragrance in Punjabi
- ਖੁਸ਼ਬੂ khuśbū, ਸੁਗੰਧ sugandh
- fragrance in Gujarati
- મહેક mahek
- fragrance in Sanskrit
- गन्ध gandha
- fragrance in Tagalog
- bango
- fragrance in Arabic
- أَرِيج ʔarīj, عَبِير ʕabīr, شَذًا šaḏan, عِطْر ʕiṭr
- fragrance in Malay
- wangian
- fragrance in Persian
- عطر 'atr
- fragrance in Thai
- กลิ่นหอม glìn-hŏm
- fragrance in Vietnamese
- mùi thơm, hương thơm, hương vị
- fragrance in Myanmar
- ရနံ့ ra.nam., အမွှေး a.hmwe:
Examples of fragrance in a sentence
- Faced with a mind-boggling selection of special-purpose shampoos, he gave up and simply purchased something inexpensive with a pleasant fragrance.
- The chewing gum had a fruitlike fragrance.
- Once, Marikit smelled the enchanting fragrance of tinola from an open window.
Synonyms of fragrance
Forms of fragrance
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | fragrances |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | fragrances |
| present participle | fragrancing |
| past participle | fragranced |
| past | fragranced |
Origin of fragrance
Borrowed from French fragrance, from Middle French fragrance, from Old French fraglance, from Late Latin frāgrantia. See fragrant.
Words formed from fragrance
Questions about fragrance
- What does fragrance mean?
- Fragrance means a pleasant smell or odour.
- What is fragrance in Hindi?
- Fragrance in Hindi is परिमल (parimal), इत्र (itra), अतर (atar). See Fragrance meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is fragrance?
- Fragrance can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce fragrance?
- Fragrance is pronounced /ˈfɹeɪɡɹən(t)s/.
- What is the plural of fragrance?
- The plural of fragrance is fragrances.
Words near fragrance in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: fragrance (page history and authors); सुगंध (Marathi) (page history and authors); خوشبو (Urdu) (page history and authors); పరిమళము (Telugu) (page history and authors); fragrance (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ಗಂಧ (Kannada) (page history and authors); મહેક (Gujarati) (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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