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- Dictionaryfetor/ˈfiːtə/
noun
- 1. a strong, foul smell: "the fetor of decay"
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: a strong offensive smell : stench. Examples of fetor in a Sentence. Recent Examples on the Web The musty aroma didn’t supplant the fetor of failure and futility that hung in the air and along the corridors, like inert gases or the ghosts of the League of Nations.
Fetor definition: a strong, offensive smell; stench.. See examples of FETOR used in a sentence.
noun. an offensive stale or putrid odour; stench. Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers. Word origin. C15: from Latin, from fētēre to stink. Word Frequency. fetor in American English. (ˈfitər ; ˈfiˌtɔr ) noun. a strong, disagreeable smell; stench. Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition.
a distinctive odor that is offensively unpleasant.
Define fetor. fetor synonyms, fetor pronunciation, fetor translation, English dictionary definition of fetor. also foe·tor n. A strong, offensive odor. See Synonyms at stench.
fetor typically occurs about 0.03 times per million words in modern written English. fetor is in frequency band 3, which contains words occurring between 0.01 and 0.1 times per million words in modern written English.
Fetor definition: A strong, offensive odor.
(foetor) n. an unpleasant smell. Fetor oris is bad breath (halitosis), which is most commonly caused by poor oral hygiene but can also occur in patients with acute appendicitis or uraemia. Fetor hepaticus is bad breath with a sweet faecal odour, occurring in patients with severe liver disease.
Synonyms for FETOR: stench, rankness, malodor, reek, foulness, rancidity, funk, stink, savour, gaminess.
noun a distinctive odor that is offensively unpleasant. Etymologies. from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition. [Middle English fetoure, from Latin fētor, from fētēre, to stink.] fetor. Harry and Giselle sank into the cat hair and fetor of his double bed. Harry, Giselle and Joyce 2010.
