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Definition: Stench |
StenchNoun1. A distinctive odor that is offensively unpleasant. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "stench" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Mining | A substance with a distinctive, disagreeable odor put in the air current to warn underground workers of fire or other emergency; ethyl mercaptan iscommonly used. (references) |
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Synonyms: StenchSynonyms: fetor (n), foetor (n), malodor (n), malodour (n), reek (n), stink (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Stench |
| English words defined with "stench": Air trap ♦ Bell trap ♦ Fumette ♦ mephitic, miasmic ♦ Stench trap, Stenchy, Stink trap. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "stench": Camarina ♦ Noise ♦ Reuben Dixon ♦ stench capsule. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "stench": Virus. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I recognized your foul stench when I was brought on board. (Episode IV: A New Hope; writing credit: George Lucas.) The rodent's words give off the stench of truth. (Beast Wars: Transformers; writing credit: Bob Forward; Lawrence G. DiTillio) What better way to welcome somebody to our country than the stench of urine? (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) How the hell am I ever gonna get the stench of landfill and working class families out of tropical lightweight wool? (Will & Grace; writing credit: Evan Weinstein) The evil stench of white man precedes him. (Dead Man; writing credit: Jim Jarmusch) | |
Lyrics | The foulest stench is in the air (Thriller; performing artist: Michael Jackson) Boiling heat, summer stench (BLACK HOLE SUN; performing artist: Soundgarden) | |
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Books | |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | Imagine all this and you will have some idea of the horror of the stench of hell. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | NOISE, n. A stench in the ear. Undomesticated music. The chief product and authenticating sign of civilization. |
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Dennis Miller | Now women too can experience the blue-grey glow of fluorescent lighting, the warm, pungent stench of burned coffee, the soul-numbing Sisyphean routine of completing a week's work, getting a week's pay, then doing it all over again Monday morning. |
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| "Stench" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.64% of the time. "Stench" is used about 278 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 99.64% | 277 | 17,585 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.36% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 278 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "stench": cause a stench ♦ sickening stench ♦ stench bomb ♦ stench trap. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
pungent stench | 19 |
stench | 17 |
messy stench | 10 |
anal stench | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "stench"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | kutërbim (nip, odor, odour, reek, stink), erë e keqe (fetidness, mephitis, reek, stink). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | نتانة (fetidness, filth, infection, mephitis, stink), رائحة نتنة (pong, reek, smell). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | смрад (reek), воня (fetidness, fetor, hum, pong, reek, smell, stink), зловоние. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 臭 (sense of smell, smell bad, smelly, stink, to smell). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | smrad (niff, odor, odour, pong, reek, smell, stink), puch (hum, stink), odporný zápach. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | stank (fetor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | fetoro. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Faeroese | deymur (fume). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | گند (Stink), تعفن (Putrefaction, Stink), دودیابوی قوی , بوی زننده . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | löyhkä (stink). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | puanteur (stink). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Gestank (fetidness, hum, malodorousness, odor, odour, pong, reek, smell, stink). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | βρώμα (dirt, fetish, filth, stink), δυσωδία (fetidness, stink). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | פ'ול (abomination, filth), עפוש (mould, rancidity), "באש" (malodorousness, stink), "סרח", באיש" (stink), באשת, באש (ablaze, stink), צח " (fetidness, reek, smell), סרות, סרחון (malodor, reek, stink, transgression), סרח (stink). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | rossz szag. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | engas (foul odor, stink). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | lezzo (malodorousness, reek, stink). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 悪臭 (bad odor, stink). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | におい (aroma, fragrance, odour, perfume, scent, smell), あくしゅう (bad habit, bad odor, stink, vice). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | torcan (reek, stifling cloud of smoke, stink, strong smell), plooghane (fumes, suffocation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | enchstay fedor (fetor, fume, stink), cheiro podre, cheiro pestilento, cheiro fétido. (various references) putoare (niff, slacker, stink), miros greu (fug), infecţie (infection, stink), duhoare (miasma, niff, odor, odour, stink). (various references) смрад (stenches, stink). (various references) toth (a foul blast of vapour). (various references) smrad (mephitis, odor, odour, smell, stink), zadah (bad smell). (various references) mal olor (rankness, reek), hedor (reek, stink). (various references) smeri (aroma, flavour, give off an odour, odor, odour, reek, scent, smell), tingi. (various references) stank (fetidness, fetor, foulness, fume, funk, reek, stank, stink, stunk). (various references) pis koku (niff, pong, reek, smell, stink). (various references) porsy (stink). (various references) сморід (fetidity, fetidness, fetor, foetidness, foulness, malodour, mephitis, reek, stink), щось смердюче. (various references) mùi hôi thối (fetidness, fetor). (various references) archfa. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | zi. (various references) |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | bromos. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | aura, aurae, auram, auris. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "stench": stenches, stenchful, stenchier, stenchiest, stenchy. (additional references) | |
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"Stench" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Senoch, sensh, stach, stech, steenk, stence, Stenka, stetch, stiech, stoch, stunch, tinch. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "stench" (pronounced ste"nkh) |
| 4 | -t e" n kh | tench. |
| 3 | -e" n kh | bench, clench, drench, entrench, french, quench, retrench, trench, wrench. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-h-n-s-t" | |
-1 letter: cents, chest, hents, scent, shent, tench, thens. | |
-2 letters: cent, etch, eths, hens, hent, hest, hets, nest, nets, sect, sent, tens, then. | |
-3 letters: ens, eth, hen, hes, het, net, nth, sec, sen, set, she, ten, the. | |
-4 letters: eh, en, es, et, he, ne, sh. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-h-n-s-t" | |
+1 letter: chasten, ethnics, notches, pschent, stenchy, sthenic, tenches. | |
+2 letters: asthenic, chanters, chanteys, chanties, chastens, chestnut, chintses, chintzes, cholents, christen, chunters, chutnees, chutneys, citherns, cithrens, enchants, etchants, etchings, ichnites, kitchens, manchets, nautches, nitchies, notchers, pschents, sithence, snatched, snatcher, snatches, snitched, snitcher, snitches, stanched, stancher, stanches, stenches, technics, thickens, tranches, trenches, unchaste. | |
+3 letters: anchorets, anthraces, asthenics, beechnuts, bunchiest, catechins, cathepsin, ceanothus, cenotaphs, chanciest, chantages, chanteuse, chantries, chastened, chastener, chaunters, chestnuts, chinkiest, christens, chunkiest, dehiscent, ethicians, ethnarchs, euthenics, hesitance, hesitancy, itchiness, jacinthes, lecithins, mechanist, merchants, penchants, pentarchs, phenetics, phonetics, planchets, punchiest, schnitzel, scutcheon, sketching, snatchers, snatchier, snitchers, sphincter, stanchers, stanchest, staunched, stauncher, staunches, stenchful, stenchier, stonechat, switchmen, synthetic, teachings, thickness, trenchers, unclothes, unhitches, unlatches, unscathed, unteaches, yachtsmen. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Quotations: Fiction 7. Quotations: Non-fiction 8. Quotations: Spoken | 9. Usage Frequency 10. Expressions 11. Expressions: Internet 12. Translations: Modern | 13. Translations: Ancient 14. Derivations 15. Rhymes 16. Anagrams | 17. Bibliography |
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