Redolent

Definitions: Redolent

Redolent

Adjective

1. Serving to bring to mind; "cannot forbear to close on this redolent literary note"- Wilder Hobson; "a campaign redolent of machine politics".

2. (used with `of' or `with') noticeably odorous; "the hall was redolent of floor wax"; "air redolent with the fumes of beer and whiskey".

3. Having a strong distinctive fragrance; "the pine woods were more redolent"- Jean Stafford.

Date "redolent" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Etymology: Redolent \Red"o*lent\ (-lent), adjective. [Latin expression redolens, -entis, present participle of redolere to emit scent, diffuse an odor; prefix red-, re-, re- olere to emit smell. See Odor.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Redolent

Synonyms: aromatic (adj), evocative (adj), redolent of(p) (adj), redolent(p) (adj), remindful (adj), reminiscent (adj), reminiscent of(p) (adj), smelling(p) (adj). (additional references)

Crosswords: Redolent

English words defined with "redolent": evocative ♦ Redolency, redolent of, remindful, reminiscent, reminiscent of ♦ smelling. (references)

Specialty definitions using "redolent": RADIUM. (references)

Etymologies containing "redolent": Odor. (references)

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	The air was redolent of the East.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Redolent" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Redolent" is used about 83 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	83	36,350

Expressions using "redolent": be redolent of ♦ redolent of ♦ redolent of romance ♦ town redolent of age. Additional references.
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Language		Translations for "redolent"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		me erë të fortë, kundërmues (odoriferous, odorous), erëmirë (fragrant, odoriferous, odorous, sweet-scented). (various references)

Arabic		‏فواح (aromatic, fragrant), ‏عطر (attar, balmy, eau de cologne, embalm, fragrant, odor, odorous, odour, perfume, redolence, scent), ‏عابق ب, ‏ذو رائحة (odoriferous, odorous, smelly), ‏أرج (fragrant, rich), ‏رائحة حلوة (redolence). (various references)

Bulgarian		уханен, ухаещ, навяващ, напомнящ (admonitory, remindful, reminiscent), миришещ (smelling), благоуханен (ambrosial, fragrant, odoriferous, odorous, scented). (various references)

Czech		vonný (aromatic, balmy, fragrant, odorous), vonící (smelling). (various references)

Farsi		معطر (Aromatic, Nutty, Scented, Spicy), حاکی (Expressive, Symbolic, Symptomatic), بودار (Aromatic, Smelly). (various references)

French		parfumé, odorant. (various references)

German		stark duftend nach. (various references)

Greek		ευώδησ (fragrant, odoriferous, odorous). (various references)

Hebrew		מעל�" ריח, מזכיר (reminiscent, secretary). (various references)

Hungarian		illatos (balmy, fragrant, nosy, odoriferous, odorous, sweet, to embalm). (various references)

Italian		profumato (fragrant, luscious, odoriferous, scented, sweet), fragrante (aromatic, balmy, fragrant, odoriferous, odorous), evocativo (evocative, evocatory, suggestive). (various references)

Manx		soaral jeh (redolence). (various references)

Pig Latin		edolentray

Portuguese		redolente, sugestivo (suggestive), que cheira, fragrante (aromatic, fragrant, nutty), evocativo (evoke), com um odor forte, aromático (aromatic, flavored, flavoured, fragrant, odorless). (various references)

Romanian		parfumat (aromatic, balmy, flavorous, odoriferous, scented, spicy). (various references)

Russian		вызывающий воспоминание, ароматный (aromatic, balmy, flavored, flavoured, fragrant, full-flavoured, nosey), пахучий (odoriferous, odorous, smelling). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		mirisan (aromatic, deodorant, flavored, flavoured, fragrant, odoriferous, odorous, perfumed, savory, savoury, scented, smelling), koji odiše. (various references)

Spanish		fragante (balmy, fragrant, notorious, scented). (various references)

Swedish		doftande (flavorous, fragrant, odoriferous, odorous, scented). (various references)

Turkish		kokulu (aromatic, balsamic, fragrant, nosey, nosy, odoriferous, odorous, perfumed, Savory, savoury, scented, spiced, spicy), hatırlatan (evocative, reminding, reminiscent), güzel kokulu (aromatic, fragrant, nosey, nosy, odoriferous). (various references)

Ukranian		ароматний (balmy, balsamic, flavored, flavoured, fragrant, luscious, nosey, odorant, odorous, perfumed, scented), при�"мний (acceptable, agreeable, amiable, balmy, beautiful, boon, canny, clean-cut, complimentary, couth, cozy, cushy, delectable, dulcet, easy, enjoyable, glad, good, goodly, graceful, grateful, jocund, kindly, lepid, nice, nutty, palatable, pleasant, pleasing, pleasurable, prepossessing, pretty, satisfactory, tasty, welcome, yummy). (various references)

Vietnamese		gợi lại (reminiscent). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	fragro. (various references)
Old French	900-1400	redolent. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "redolent": redolently. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Redolent" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Recoleta, redelent, redoient, redolant, redole, rendolent, retilent. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "redolent" (pronounced 'Red"o*lent'): Acidulent, Attollent, Benevolent, Bivalent, Cinerulent, Convellent, Corpulent, Dedolent, Divalent, Divellent, Diversivolent, Dolent, Equipollent, Equivalent, Feculent, flatulent, Florulent, fraudulent, Frustulent, Glent, Graveolent, Heptavalent, Hexavalent, indolent, Inopulent, insolent, Interrepellent, Intranscalent, Jack-a-lent, luculent, Lutulent, Macilent, malevolent, Maltalent, monovalent, Mucopurulent, Muculent, Multivalent, Octavalent, Olent, Omniprevalent, Opulent, Pentavalent, Pestilent, Poculent, Polyvalent, Potulent, Precellent, Prevalent, Puberulent, Pulverulent, Purulent, Quadrivalent, Quantivalent, Quinquivalent, Revellent, Rorulent, Sanguinolent, Sexavalent, Sexivalent, Slent, somnolent, Superexcellent, Temulent, tetravalent, Transcalent, trivalent, truculent, turbulent, univalent, Vinolent, Virulent. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: rondelet.
	Words within the letters "d-e-e-l-n-o-r-t"
	-1 letter: erodent.
	-2 letters: denote, lender, redone, relend, relent, rented, retold, rodent, rondel, tender, teredo.
	-3 letters: deter, donee, doter, drone, elder, ender, enrol, enter, erode, lento, leone, loden, loner, nerol, noted, noter, olden, older, redon, relet, rente, tenor, terne, toled, toned, toner, treed, treen, trend, trode, trone.
	-4 letters: deer, deet, dele, delt, dene, dent, dere, doer, dole, dolt, done, dore, dote, dree, enol, erne, leer, leet, lend, leno, lent, lode, lone, lord, lore, lorn, need, nerd, node, noel, note, orle, rede, redo, reed, reel, rend, rent, rete, rode, role, rote, rotl, teed, teel, teen, tele, tend, tern, toed, told, tole, tone, tore, torn, tree, trod.
	-5 letters: dee, del, den, doe, dol, don, dor, dot, eel, eld, end, eon, ere, ern, led, lee, let, lot, nee, net, nod, nor, not, ode, old, ole, one, ore, ort, red, ree, ret, rod, roe, rot, ted, tee, tel, ten, tod, toe, ton, tor.
	Words containing the letters "d-e-e-l-n-o-r-t"
	+1 letter: rondelets.
	+2 letters: centerfold, delineator, entodermal, goaltender, interloped, outlearned, redolently, tenderloin.
	+3 letters: aldosterone, centerfolds, concertedly, delineators, dereliction, endometrial, goaltenders, heldentenor, interfolded, interlocked, lionhearted, netherworld, overplanted, reconditely, tenderloins, volunteered.
	+4 letters: aldosterones, deceleration, dechlorinate, decontrolled, deliberation, demonstrable, deregulation, derelictions, endotracheal, heldentenors, interpolated, lepidopteran, netherworlds, nonregulated, orientalized, outgeneraled, overinflated, predilection, radioelement, redeployment, reinoculated, tredecillion, tremendously, uncorrelated, underclothes, ventromedial.
	+5 letters: adrenalectomy, concelebrated, conglomerated, considerately, coresidential, countermelody, countervailed, decelerations, dechlorinated, dechlorinates, deliberations, derealization, deregulations, desultoriness, deuteranomaly, directionless, downheartedly, electioneered, interinvolved, lepidopterans, metronidazole, nondeliberate, openheartedly, outdelivering, overindulgent, preadolescent, predilections, predominately, radioelements, reconsolidate, redeployments, redevelopment, tredecillions, trinucleotide.
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