"redolent" meaning in English

See redolent in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /ˈɹɛd.ə.lənt/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈɹɛd.əʊ.lənt/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈɹɛd.ə.lənt/ [US], /ˈɹed.ə.lənt/ [General-Australian] Audio: en-us-redolent.ogg , En-au-redolent.ogg Forms: more redolent [comparative], most redolent [superlative]
Etymology: From Middle English redolent (first attested in 1400), from Old French redolent, from Latin redolentem, present participle of redoleō (“I emit a scent”), from red- + oleō (“I smell”). Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*h₃ed- (smell)}}, {{inh|en|enm|redolent}} Middle English redolent, {{der|en|fro|redolent}} Old French redolent, {{der|en|la|redolentem}} Latin redolentem Head templates: {{en-adj}} redolent (comparative more redolent, superlative most redolent)
  1. Fragrant or aromatic; having a sweet scent. Synonyms: aromatic, fragrant Translations (fragrant or aromatic): ароматен (aromaten) (Bulgarian), благоуханен (blagouhanen) (Bulgarian), provoněný (Czech), vonící (Czech), geurig (Dutch), welriekend (Dutch), tuoksuva (Finnish), parfumé (French), duftend (nach) (German), illatos (Hungarian), szagos (Hungarian), profumato (Italian), анхилам (anxilam) (Mongolian), خوشبو (xošbu) (Persian), pachnący [masculine] (Polish), mirisan (Serbo-Croatian), aromático (Spanish)
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  2. Having the smell of the article in question. Categories (topical): Smell Synonyms: reeking, smelling Translations (having a smell): миризлив (mirizliv) (Bulgarian), vonící (Czech), riekend (Dutch), tuoksuva (Finnish), tuoksahtava (Finnish), riechend (nach) (German), den Geruch habend (english: von) (German), illatú (Hungarian), szagú (Hungarian), pachnący [masculine] (Polish), mirisan (Serbo-Croatian)
    Sense id: en-redolent-en-adj-rq44F5Co Disambiguation of Smell: 37 63 1 Disambiguation of 'having a smell': 35 64 1
  3. (figurative) Suggestive or reminiscent. Tags: figuratively Translations (suggestive or reminiscent): напомнящ (napomnjašt) (Bulgarian), навяващ спомени (navjavašt spomeni) (Bulgarian), 令人諗起……嘅 /令人谂起……嘅 (ling⁶ jan⁴ nam² hei² ... ge³) (Chinese Cantonese), evokující (Czech), připomínající (Czech), zavánějící (Czech), prodchnutý (Czech), doen denken aan (Dutch), muistuttava (Finnish), erinnernd (english: an) (German), emlékeztető (Hungarian), przywołujący [masculine] (Polish), koji miriše na (Serbo-Croatian), redolente (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-redolent-en-adj-eQS9--a1 Disambiguation of 'suggestive or reminiscent': 1 1 98
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: redolently Related terms: redolence, redolency
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    "Terms with German translations",
    "Terms with Hungarian translations",
    "Terms with Italian translations",
    "Terms with Mongolian translations",
    "Terms with Persian translations",
    "Terms with Polish translations",
    "Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations",
    "Terms with Spanish translations",
    "en:Smell"
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    {
      "word": "redolently"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "form": "more redolent",
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        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most redolent",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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    {
      "word": "redolence"
    },
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      "word": "redolency"
    }
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    {
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        "Fragrant or aromatic; having a sweet scent."
      ],
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        ],
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          "scent",
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        {
          "word": "aromatic"
        },
        {
          "word": "fragrant"
        }
      ]
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        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “(please specify the page)”, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, pages 163–164:",
          "text": "Most of the articles were home-made; the bread, the yellow butter, as golden as the cups to which it has given name; the thickest cream, and a honeycomb redolent of the thyme which even then echoed with the hum of the bees.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1861, Francis Colburn Adams, chapter 32, in An Outcast:",
          "text": "His breath is already redolent of whiskey.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 16]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part III [Nostos], page 572:",
          "text": "Stephen, that is when the accosting figure came to close quarters, though he was not in an over sober state himself recognised Corley's breath redolent of rotten cornjuice.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
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        "Having the smell of the article in question."
      ],
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        [
          "smell",
          "smell"
        ]
      ],
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        {
          "word": "reeking"
        },
        {
          "word": "smelling"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXV, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 213:",
          "text": "But, in the country, the green fields are so joyous, the pure air so fresh, the blue sky so clear; the fine old trees, redolent of earth's loveliest mythology, when the dryades peopled their green shadows;...",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1919, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, A vision:",
          "text": "But forth from sweat-shops, tenement and prison\nWailed minor protests, redolent with pain.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1928 February, H[oward] P[hillips] Lovecraft, “The Call of Cthulhu”, in Farnsworth Wright, editor, Weird Tales: A Magazine of the Bizarre and Unusual, volume 11, number 2, Indianapolis, Ind.: Popular Fiction Pub. Co., →OCLC, pages 159–178 and 287:",
          "text": "He said that the geometry of the dream-place he saw was abnormal, non-Euclidean, and loathsomely redolent of spheres and dimensions apart from ours.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021 February 22, Polly Toynbee, “The Covid contracts furore is no surprise – Britain has long been a chumocracy”, in The Guardian:",
          "text": "The sums are so vast, the secrecy so shocking, that “chumocracy” doesn’t begin to capture what Britain has become – redolent as we are of banana republics, the Russian oligarchy and failed states.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
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        "Suggestive or reminiscent."
      ],
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        [
          "Suggestive",
          "suggestive"
        ],
        [
          "reminiscent",
          "reminiscent"
        ]
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figurative) Suggestive or reminiscent."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively"
      ]
    }
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɹɛd.ə.lənt/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɹɛd.əʊ.lənt/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɹɛd.ə.lənt/",
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        "US"
      ]
    },
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        "General-Australian"
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    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "aromaten",
      "sense": "fragrant or aromatic",
      "word": "ароматен"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "blagouhanen",
      "sense": "fragrant or aromatic",
      "word": "благоуханен"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "fragrant or aromatic",
      "word": "provoněný"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "fragrant or aromatic",
      "word": "vonící"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "fragrant or aromatic",
      "word": "geurig"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "fragrant or aromatic",
      "word": "welriekend"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "fragrant or aromatic",
      "word": "tuoksuva"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "fragrant or aromatic",
      "word": "parfumé"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "fragrant or aromatic",
      "word": "duftend (nach)"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "fragrant or aromatic",
      "word": "illatos"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "fragrant or aromatic",
      "word": "szagos"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "fragrant or aromatic",
      "word": "profumato"
    },
    {
      "code": "mn",
      "lang": "Mongolian",
      "roman": "anxilam",
      "sense": "fragrant or aromatic",
      "word": "анхилам"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "xošbu",
      "sense": "fragrant or aromatic",
      "word": "خوشبو"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "fragrant or aromatic",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "pachnący"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "fragrant or aromatic",
      "word": "mirisan"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "fragrant or aromatic",
      "word": "aromático"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "mirizliv",
      "sense": "having a smell",
      "word": "миризлив"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "having a smell",
      "word": "vonící"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "having a smell",
      "word": "riekend"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "having a smell",
      "word": "tuoksuva"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "having a smell",
      "word": "tuoksahtava"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "having a smell",
      "word": "riechend (nach)"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "english": "von",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "having a smell",
      "word": "den Geruch habend"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "having a smell",
      "word": "illatú"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "having a smell",
      "word": "szagú"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "having a smell",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "pachnący"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "having a smell",
      "word": "mirisan"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "napomnjašt",
      "sense": "suggestive or reminiscent",
      "word": "напомнящ"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "navjavašt spomeni",
      "sense": "suggestive or reminiscent",
      "word": "навяващ спомени"
    },
    {
      "code": "yue",
      "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
      "roman": "ling⁶ jan⁴ nam² hei² ... ge³",
      "sense": "suggestive or reminiscent",
      "word": "令人諗起……嘅 /令人谂起……嘅"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "suggestive or reminiscent",
      "word": "evokující"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "suggestive or reminiscent",
      "word": "připomínající"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "suggestive or reminiscent",
      "word": "zavánějící"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "suggestive or reminiscent",
      "word": "prodchnutý"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "suggestive or reminiscent",
      "word": "doen denken aan"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "suggestive or reminiscent",
      "word": "muistuttava"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "english": "an",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "suggestive or reminiscent",
      "word": "erinnernd"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "suggestive or reminiscent",
      "word": "emlékeztető"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "suggestive or reminiscent",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "przywołujący"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "suggestive or reminiscent",
      "word": "koji miriše na"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "suggestive or reminiscent",
      "word": "redolente"
    }
  ],
  "word": "redolent"
}

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