Definition of Smell

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Definition of Smell

Smell

To perceive by the olfactory nerves, or organs of smell; to have a sensation of, excited through the nasal organs when affected by the appropriate materials or qualities; to obtain the scent of; as, to smell a rose; to smell perfumes.

To detect or perceive, as if by the sense of smell; to scent out; -- often with out.

To give heed to.

To affect the olfactory nerves; to have an odor or scent; -- often followed by of; as, to smell of smoke, or of musk.

To have a particular tincture or smack of any quality; to savor; as, a report smells of calumny.

To exercise the sense of smell.

To exercise sagacity.

The sense or faculty by which certain qualities of bodies are perceived through the instrumentally of the olfactory nerves. See Sense.

The quality of any thing or substance, or emanation therefrom, which affects the olfactory organs; odor; scent; fragrance; perfume; as, the smell of mint.

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Smell Quotations

Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.
Benjamin Franklin

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?
Friedrich Nietzsche

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.
Helen Keller

My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?
Erma Bombeck

What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
William Shakespeare

Observe, record, tabulate, communicate. Use your five senses. Learn to see, learn to hear, learn to feel, learn to smell, and know that by practice alone you can become expert.
William Osler

Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.
Rudyard Kipling

I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air.
Margaret Thatcher

An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
H. L. Mencken

Smell Translations

smell in Afrikaans is reuk, geur, ruik
smell in Danish is lugte, lugt, stinke
smell in Dutch is stinken, vies ruiken
smell in Finnish is haistaa
smell in French is sentir, odorat, pifer, flairer
smell in German is riechen, riechen, Geruch, dufte
smell in Italian is profumo, odorato, odoro
smell in Latin is nidor
smell in Norwegian is lukte
smell in Portuguese is cheiro
smell in Spanish is apestar, oler
smell in Swedish is os, dofta, lukta, lukt, osa

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