different between redolent vs echoes

English

Etymology

From Middle English redolent (first attested in 1400), from Old French redolent, from Latin redolentem, present participle of redole? (“I emit a scent”), from red- + ole? (“I smell”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???d.?l.?nt/, /???d.??.l?nt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /???d.?l.?nt/

Adjective

redolent (comparative more redolent, superlative most redolent)

1. Fragrant or aromatic; having a sweet scent.
2. Having the smell of the article in question.
   • 1861, Francis Colburn Adams, An Outcast, ch. 32:

     His breath is already redolent of whiskey.
3. (idiomatic) Suggestive or reminiscent.
   • 1919, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, A vision:

     But forth from sweat-shops, tenement and prison
     Wailed minor protests, redolent with pain.

   • 1926, H.P. Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu:

     He said that the geometry of the dream-place he saw was abnormal, non-Euclidean, and loathsomely redolent of spheres and dimensions apart from ours.

Synonyms

• (fragrant or aromatic): aromatic, fragrant
• (having the smell of): reeking, smelling
• (suggestive or reminiscent): reminiscent, suggestive

Derived terms

• redolently

Related terms

• redolence
• redolency

Translations

Anagrams

• Del Norte, rondelet

Latin

Verb

redolent

1. third-person plural present active indicative of redole? : 'they smell' ( - intransitive - i.e. 'they emit / diffuse an odour' ).

English

Noun

echoes

1. plural of echo

Verb

echoes

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of echo

Anagrams

• Cohees