scent — OET · Shobdo

scent

noun

1 the scent of freshly cut hay:

smell, fragrance, aroma, perfume, redolence, savour, odour, whiff;

bouquet, nose.

▷antonyms stink, stench.

2 she brushed her hair and sprayed scent over her body:

perfume, fragrance, toilet water, lavender water, cologne;

French parfum, eau de toilette, eau de cologne;

informal scoosh.

3 the hounds picked up the scent of a hare:

spoor, trail, track;

Hunting foil, wind.

4 the day was gloomy and cold with a scent of rain on the air:

hint, suggestion, trace, whiff.

verb

1 a shark can scent blood from well over half a kilometre away:

smell, detect the smell of, pick up the smell of, get a whiff of.

2 Rose looked at him, scenting a threat:

sense, become aware of, become conscious of, detect, discern, perceive, recognize, get wind of, sniff out, nose out.

scent Oxford Dictionary of English