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fragrance

noun
/ˈfɹeɪɡɹən(t)s/

Etymology

Borrowed from French fragrance, from Middle French fragrance, from Old French fraglance, from Late Latin frāgrantia. See fragrant.

  1. derived from frāgrantia
  2. derived from fraglance
  3. derived from fragrance
  4. borrowed from fragrance

Definitions

  1. A pleasant smell or odour.

  2. 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.

  3. To apply a fragrance to

    To apply a fragrance to; to perfume.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at fragrance. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01fragrance02perfume03odoriferous04odor05fragrant

A definitional loop anchored at fragrance. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

5 hops · closes at fragrance

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA