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You can make 28 words from scent according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

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Definitions and meaning of scent

scent

Alternative forms

• sent (obsolete)

Etymology

From c.1400, from Middle English sent (noun) and senten (verb), from Old French sentir (“to feel, perceive, smell”), from Old French sentire "to feel, perceive, sense", from Latin sentīre, present active infinitive of sentiō. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sent- (“to feel”), and thus related to Dutch zin (“sense, meaning”), German Sinn (“sense”), Low German Sinn (“sense”), Luxembourgish Sënn (“sense, perception”), Saterland Frisian Sin (“sense”), West Frisian sin (“sense”). The -c- appeared in the 17th century, possibly by influence of ascent, descent, etc., or by influence of science.

Pronunciation

• enPR: sĕnt, IPA^(key): /sɛnt/
• Rhymes: -ɛnt
• Homophones: cent, sent

Noun

scent (countable and uncountable, plural scents)

1. A distinctive smell.

   Synonyms: aroma, bouquet, fragrance, nosegay, odor, perfume, redolence, smell
2. A smell left by an animal that may be used for tracing.
3. The sense of smell.

   Synonym: olfaction
4. (chiefly uncountable) A substance (usually liquid) created to provide a pleasant smell.

   Synonyms: aftershave, cologne, eau de toilette, perfume, toilet water
5. (figuratively) Any trail or trace that can be followed to find something or someone, such as the paper left behind in a paperchase.

   to pick up a scent / get scent of something ― discover one of a series of clues in the trail of evidence

   to throw / put someone off the scent ― distract them from following the trail of evidence
6. (obsolete) Sense, perception.

Usage notes

• Although historically the term was applied indifferently to odours of any kind, it is now more often used to refer to pleasant ones (like aroma and fragrance), while odour and smell are more often used for unpleasant ones.

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• olfactory

Verb

scent (third-person singular simple present scents, present participle scenting, simple past and past participle scented)

1. (transitive) To detect the scent of; to discern by the sense of smell.

   Synonym: smell
2. (transitive, intransitive) To inhale in order to detect the scent of (something).

   Synonyms: sniff, smell
3. (transitive, figurative) To have a suspicion of; to detect the possibility of (something).

   Synonyms: detect, discern, perceive, sense
4. (transitive) To impart an odour to, to cause to have a particular smell.

   Synonyms: perfume, odorize
5. (intransitive, obsolete) To have a smell; (figuratively) to give an impression (of something).

   Synonym: smell

   • 1647, John Fletcher and Philip Massinger, The False One, Act III, Scene 2, in Fifty Comedies and Tragedies, London: John Martyn et al., p. 325,^[14]

     I smell him now: fie, how the Knave perfumes him, / How strong he scents of Traitor?
6. To hunt animals by means of the sense of smell.

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• cents