smell

smell meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

Examples of smell in a sentence

• Next he put the mackerel in a fry-pan, and the shanty began to smell like a Banks boat just in from a v'yage.1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
• Este's been losing sleep / Her husband's acting different and it smells like infidelity2021, Taylor Swift, “No Body, No Crime”:

All 40 example sentences with smell

Synonyms of smell

• aroma
• niff
• olfaction
• sense of smell
• detect
• sense
• pong
• reek
• stink
• whiff

All synonyms of smell

Forms of smell

Past tense of smell: smelled or smelt

Plural of smell: smells

Origin of smell

From Middle English smellen, smillen, smyllen, smullen, from Old English *smyllan, *smiellan (“to smell, emit fumes”), from Proto-West Germanic *smallijan (“to glow, burn, smoulder”), from Proto-Indo-European *smel- (“to burn, smoke, smoulder; tar, pitch”). The noun is from Middle English smel, smil, smul (“smell, odour”). Related to Saterland Frisian smeele (“to smoulder”), Middle Dutch smōlen (“to burn, smoulder”) (whence Dutch smeulen (“to smoulder”)), Middle Low German smölen (“to be hazy, be dusty”) (whence Low German smölen (“smoulder”)), Low German smullen (“emit smoke”), West Flemish smoel (“stuffy, muggy, hazy”), Danish smul (“dust, powder”), Lithuanian smilkyti (“to incense, fumigate”), Lithuanian smilkti (“to smudge, smolder, fume, reek”), Lithuanian smalkinti (“to fume”), Middle Irish smál, smól, smúal (“fire, gleed, embers, ashes”), Russian смола́ (smolá, “resin, tar”). Compare smoulder, smother.

Words formed from smell

• code smell
• money does not smell
• money has no smell
• new baby smell
• newborn smell
• new-car smell
• sense of smell
• smaste
• smell-alike
• smell blindness
• smell-brain
• smell-feast
• smell fox
• smellful
• smell-o-meter
• smell-o-rama
• smell-o-vision
• smellproof
• smellscape
• smell-smock
• smellsome
• smell trap
• sweet smell of success
• foresmell
• besmell
• come out smelling like a rose
• come out smelling of roses
• come up smelling like a rose
• come up smelling of roses
• foul-smelling
• outsmell
• resmell
• smellable
• smell a fox
• smell a rat
• smell blood
• smell blood in the water
• smellevision
• smell fishy
• smellfungus
• smellie
• smelling bottle
• smelling salt
• smell like a rose
• smell like a tart's bedroom
• smell like a tart's boudoir
• smell like a tart's handbag
• smell like a tart's handkerchief
• smell of an oily rag
• smell of the lamp
• smell of the shop
• smell oneself
• smell one's own farts
• smell out
• smell test
• smell the barn
• smell the coffee
• smell the roses
• smell up
• smell what someone is stepping in

Related words

• nose
• anosmia
• sense

Phrases with smell

• Taco Smell
• smell foxes
• smell tests
• smell traps
• smell ya later
• smell you later
• stop to smell the roses
• stop and smell the roses
• stop and smell the flowers
• wake up and smell the ashes
• wake up and smell the roses
• wake up and smell the coffee

Words that rhyme with smell

• shell
• cell
• well
• bell
• tell
• swell
• dl
• compel
• spell
• nacelle
• Parnell
• sell

Questions about smell

What does smell mean?

Smell means a sensation, pleasant or unpleasant, detected by inhaling air (or, the case of water-breathing animals, water) carrying airborne molecules of a substance.

What is smell in Hindi?

Smell in Hindi is गंध (gandh), बू (bū), गंधानुभूति (gandhānubhūti). See Smell meaning in Hindi.

How do you use smell in a sentence?

Next he put the mackerel in a fry-pan, and the shanty began to smell like a Banks boat just in from a v'yage.

What part of speech is smell?

Smell can be a noun or a verb.

How do you pronounce smell?

Smell is pronounced /smɛl/ (UK).

What is the plural of smell?

The plural of smell is smells.