Usually means: Aroma perceived by olfactory senses.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. scent: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. scent: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. scent: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. scent: Collins English Dictionary
  5. scent: Vocabulary.com
  6. Scent, scent: Wordnik
  7. scent: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. scent: Wiktionary
  9. scent: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. scent: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. scent: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. scent: Dictionary.com
  13. scent (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. scent: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Scent, The Scent: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Scent: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. scent: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. scent: Rhymezone
  19. scent: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. scent: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. SCent: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. Scent: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. scent: Free Dictionary
  24. scent: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. scent: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. scent: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. scent: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. scent: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. scent: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  3. SCENT: Acronym Finder
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  5. scent: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. scent, the scent: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A distinctive smell.
noun:  A smell left by an animal that may be used for tracing.
noun:  The sense of smell.
noun:  (chiefly uncountable) A substance (usually liquid) created to provide a pleasant smell.
noun:  (figuratively) Any trail or trace that can be followed to find something or someone, such as the paper left behind in a paperchase.
noun:  (obsolete) Sense, perception.
verb:  (transitive) To detect the scent of; to discern by the sense of smell.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To inhale in order to detect the scent of (something).
verb:  (transitive, figurative) To have a suspicion of; to detect the possibility of (something).
verb:  (transitive) To impart an odour to, to cause to have a particular smell.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To have a smell; (figuratively) to give an impression (of something).
verb:  To hunt animals by means of the sense of smell.

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