perfume
Plural: perfumes
Noun
- a distinctive odor that is pleasant
- a toiletry that emits and diffuses a fragrant odor
- A pleasant smell; the scent, odor, or odoriferous particles emitted from a sweet-smelling substance; a pleasant odor.
- A substance created to provide a pleasant smell or one which emits an agreeable odor.
Verb
Verb Forms: perfumed, perfuming, perfumes
- To fill with a pleasant scent or fragrant odor.
- fill or impregnate with an odor
- "orange blossoms perfumed the air in the garden"
- apply perfume to
- "She perfumes herself every day"
- To apply perfume to; to fill or impregnate with a perfume; to scent.
Examples
- Her high-scoring word seemed to PERFUME the entire Words With Friends board with success.
- She bought a perfume at the airport.
Origin / Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French parfum, perfum. Doublet of parfum.
Scrabble Score: 14
perfume: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordperfume: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
perfume: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 17
perfume: valid Words With Friends Word