Definitions for scent

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scent scent

Spelling: [sent]

IPA: /sɛnt/

Scent is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 56 anagrams from letters in scent (censt).

Definitions for scent

noun

1. a distinctive odor, especially when agreeable:
2. an odor left in passing, by means of which an animal or person may be traced.
3. a track or trail as or as if indicated by such an odor:
4. perfume.
5. the sense of smell:
6. small pieces of paper dropped by the hares in the game of hare and hounds.

verb (used with object)

1. to perceive or recognize by or as if by the sense of smell:
2. to fill with an odor; perfume.

verb (used without object)

1. to hunt by the sense of smell, as a hound.

Origin of scent

1325-75; (v.) earlier sent, Middle English senten Middle French sentir to smell Latin sentīre to feel; (noun) Middle English, derivative of the v. Cf. sense

Examples for scent

Tse-tse, who trusted me to keep the scent, was watching ahead for a sight of the quarry.

Taking to the water threw the hounds off the scent of the track.

We dropped behind a boulder and Tse-tse counted while I lifted every scent.

The professor, who was a kind-hearted man, drew a herring across the scent.

The scent of a big item was in his nostrils, and it stimulated him like champagne.

Selling off the extras, I saw my neighbor marvel at the scent and murmur that he wished he could afford one.

Unless, of course, everything he told us is “a big farce” to lead challengers off the scent.

This is not the boisterous version of Pacino, the one we saw as Tony Montana in Scarface or as Frank Slade in scent of a Woman.

He even claims that hen partridges conceive just by smelling the scent of males.

His movie career began in movies like scent of a Woman (1992).