different between odour vs breathful

English

Alternative forms

• odor (American)

Etymology

From Middle English odour, borrowed from Anglo-Norman odour, from Old French odor, from Latin odor. Related to Swedish odör (“bad smell”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???d?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?o?d??/

Noun

odour (countable and uncountable, plural odours)

1. Alternative form of odor

Derived terms

Anagrams

• Douro

Middle English

Alternative forms

• odowre, odor, odure, odoure, odyr, oudour, odowr, odir, odur

Etymology

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman odour, from Latin odor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???du?r/, /??du?r/, /???dur/, /???d?r/

Noun

odour (plural odours)

1. A smell or scent; a nasal sensation (often intrinsic):
   1. A pleasant or appealing smell or scent.
   2. The scent of living matter or substances.
2. (figuratively) A sensation or quality; the feeling produced by something.
3. (rare) The power of discerning scents.

Descendants

• English: odour, odor
• Scots: odour

References

• “??d?ur, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-09-01.

English

Etymology 1

breath +? -ful

Adjective

breathful (comparative more breathful, superlative most breathful)

1. That breathes.
2. Focused on control of one's breathing.
3. Full of breath; breathy.
4. Characteristic of a breath; breath-like.
5. Not breathless; breathing easily.
6. Relaxed and quiet.
7. (obsolete) Full of odour; fragrant.

Etymology 2

breath +? -ful

Noun

breathful (plural breathfuls or breathsful)

1. That which is smelled or sensed in one breath.
2. A quantity that is inhaled in one breath.
3. The amount spoken on one breath.
4. A quantity that is exhaled in one breath.