Definitions for perfume

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perfume per·fume

Spelling: [noun pur-fyoom, per-fyoom; verb per-

IPA: /noun ˈpɜr fyum, pərˈfyum; verb pərˈfyum, ˈpɜr fyum/

Perfume is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 99 anagrams from letters in perfume (eefmpru).

Definitions for perfume

noun

1. a substance, extract, or preparation for diffusing or imparting an agreeable or attractive smell, especially a fluid containing fragrant natural oils extracted from flowers, woods, etc., or similar synthetic oils.
2. the scent, odor, or volatile particles emitted by substances that smell agreeable.

verb (used with object)

1. (of substances, flowers, etc.) to impart a pleasant fragrance to.
2. to impregnate with a sweet odor; scent.

Origin of perfume

1525-35; earlier parfume (noun) Middle French parfum, noun derivative of parfumer (v.) obsolete Italian parfumare (modern profumare). See per-, fu

Examples for perfume

He reached up to the front seat, took my hand by the wrist and rubbed the perfume from his palm to mine.

Before sending it she rubbed her perfume on it like a magical charm.

In vain they woo him with their beauteous eyes and breath of perfume.

The perfume of violet scent was almost unbearable, but he did not flinch.

She had taken the bouquet of violets and breathed the perfume to cool her feverishness.

Abu Hassar nodded and took a small vial of perfume from his Adidas sweatshirt.

"They soon lose their perfume," replied the sombre Old Year.

perfume bottles and weathered papyrus replicas gather dust in the grubby window displays of the empty shops.

But the flower I lifted from the table was fresh and fragile and filled the air with perfume.

How far away all that already was, and with what perfume had it not filled his life!