different between seller vs smeller

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?s?l?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?s?l?/ enPR: s?l-?r
• Rhymes: -?l?(r)
• Homophone: cellar

Etymology 1

From Middle English seller, sellere, (also siller, sullar, sullere), from Old English *sellere, *syllere, equivalent to sell +? -er. Cognate with Danish sælger, Swedish säljare, Icelandic seljari (“a seller; dealer”).

Noun

seller (plural sellers)

1. Someone who sells; a vendor; a clerk.

   Alisha was a seller of fine books.

2. Something which sells.

   Two of the books Alisha authored had become big sellers.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

Alternative forms.

Noun

seller (plural sellers)

1. Obsolete spelling of cellar

Anagrams

• Ellers, ellers, resell

Estonian

Noun

seller (genitive selleri, partitive sellerit)

1. celery

Declension

French

Etymology

selle +? -er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?.le/, /se.le/
• Homophone: sceller

Verb

seller

1. to saddle

Conjugation

Related terms

• selle
• desseller

Further reading

• “seller” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Norman

Etymology

selle (“saddle”) +? -er

Verb

seller

1. (Jersey) to saddle

Related terms

• sell'lie f (“saddlery”)
• sellyi m (“saddler”)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

Noun

seller

1. indefinite plural of selle m or f
2. indefinite plural of selle m

Etymology 2

Noun

seller m

1. form removed with the spelling reform of 1981; superseded by selger

Verb

seller

1. present tense of selle (non-standard since 1981)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

seller f

1. indefinite plural of selle

Pennsylvania German

Determiner

seller

1. inflection of sell:
   1. masculine nominative/accusative singular
   2. feminine dative singular

English

Etymology

smell +? -er

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?l?(r)

Noun

smeller (plural smellers)

1. Someone or something that smells, that detects scent
   • December 12 2009, The Age - My space Steve Flamsteed

     I'm much more of a smeller than a taster and I think that comes from being a chef.

2. (informal) the nose
3. (informal) an accident; cropper

Anagrams

• Mellers, mellers

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

smeller n or m

1. masculine indefinite plural of smell

   Synonym: (neuter) smell

Noun

smeller f or m

1. indefinite plural of smelle

Verb

smeller

1. present tense of smelle

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• (noun and weak verb): IPA^(key): /²sm?l.l?(r)/ (examples of pronunciation)
• (strong verb): IPA^(key): /?sm?l.l?(r)/ (examples of pronunciation)
  • Homophone: smellet

Noun

smeller f

1. indefinite plural of smelle

Verb

smeller (weak verb)

1. present tense of smella

Verb

smeller (strong verb)

1. (non-standard since 2012) present tense of smella