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perfumes

perfumes is the plural of perfume.

perfumes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of perfume.

Meaning of perfume

Noun

perfume (countable and uncountable, plural perfumes)

  1. A pleasant smell; the scent, odor, or odoriferous particles emitted from a sweet-smelling substance; a pleasant odor.
    • Breezes blowing from beds of iris quickened her breath with their perfume; she saw the tufted lilacs sway in the wind, and the streamers of mauve-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees; she saw a crimson cardinal winging through the foliage, and amorous tanagers flashing like...1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, “Afterglow”, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC, page 168
    Synonyms:
    aroma, fragrance, scent
  2. (perfumery) A substance created to provide a pleasant smell or one which emits an agreeable odor.
    • She bought a perfume at the airport.
    Synonyms:
    fragrance, parfum, scent

See all 3 meanings of perfume

Questions about perfumes

What is perfumes the plural of?
Perfumes is the plural of perfume.

Words near perfumes in the dictionary

  1. perfumeress
  2. perfumeresses
  3. perfumeries
  4. perfumers
  5. perfumery
  6. perfumes
  7. perfumey
  8. perfumier
  9. perfumiers
  10. perfuming
  11. perfumista

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Adapted from Wiktionary: perfumes (page history and authors); perfume (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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