Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having or emitting an odor or fragrance; aromatic.
- adjective Suggestive; reminiscent.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having or diffusing a sweet scent; giving out an odor; odorous; smelling; fragrant: often with of.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Diffusing odor or fragrance; spreading sweet scent; scented; odorous; smelling; -- usually followed by
of .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
fragrant oraromatic ; having a sweetscent - adjective having the
smell of the article in question. - adjective idiomatic
suggestive orreminiscent
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective serving to bring to mind
- adjective having a strong pleasant odor
- adjective (used with `of' or `with') noticeably odorous
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Enter the houbara bustard, with a name redolent of leather-jacketed young men gunning their motorcycles and a courtship display to match.
Wired Top Stories Brandon Keim 2011
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Harrison's new collection, "The Farmer's Daughter" - a title redolent of Merle Haggard or off-color barroom jokes or both, depending on your referents - contains three stories that feature, among their sprawling casts, several lusty adolescent boys (including one with a clubfoot and one who's a werewolf); an aged rancher, who, at 73, on his "last conscious day" of life, gingerly gropes a
NYT > Home Page 2009
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Unfortunately, Johnson's thunder was silenced -- his reign curtailed -- by the guns and bombs of Vietnam and a challenge from Robert Kennedy, another name redolent of tragedy.
Kennedys' dark tragedies never eclipsed their lofty lunar glow 2009
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And it is indeed true that the mechanism which supported the 'Estado de India' nourished a very unique place, one which internalised the life-affirming concept behind a word redolent of the very essence of
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The constitution of the League was termed by Mr. Wilson a Covenant, a word redolent of biblical and puritanical times, which accorded well with the motives that decided him to prefer Geneva to Brussels as the seat of the League, and to adopt other measures of a supposed political character.
The Inside Story of the Peace Conference Emile Joseph Dillon 1894
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His mother was MARY ARDEN, a name redolent of old poetry and romance.
Shakespeare His Life Art And Characters Hudson, H N 1872
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His mother was MARY ARDEN, a name redolent of old poetry and romance.
Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England Henry Norman Hudson 1850
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Kinect - a name redolent of cords, cables, USB ports.
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It's called the "Cadillac tax," a name redolent of corporate executives cackling in their Escalades over their cushy benefits.
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It's called the "Cadillac tax," a name redolent of corporate executives cackling in their Escalades over their cushy benefits.
milosrdenstvi commented on the word redolent
"Our new cars, redolent of pine, spruce, and other all-natural scents..."
August 19, 2008
100000232338334 commented on the word redolent
"She had left me a little note, too, on an old envelope that already held the beginnings of my shopping list. It said, 'I'll call you later. T'--a terse note, and not exactly redolent of sisterly love."-Dead as a Doornail, by Charlaine Harris
May 19, 2011
michaelt42 commented on the word redolent
Redolent and other words connect us to our sensory memories. Proust explored this space; so did Dickens and others who explored the pollution of the 19th century in terms of the sights, smells and sounds of the urban environment; Keats described a vintage "Tasting of Flora and the country green,/Dance, and Provençal song, and sunburnt mirth!" - though his imagery is so powerful that you don't at first notice how he makes tasting do duty for other forms of sensory perception implied by his words, viz hearing, seeing and smelling. Olfaction seems to be the most powerful of these, which perhaps explains why the meaning of redolent has become extended.
December 4, 2011
Arthurpod commented on the word redolent
"...the earth was comfortably green and sunny, and the air was both fresh and warm -- pine-aromatic, redolent with springtime."
Lord Foul's Bane, Chapter Five
July 29, 2012
RevBrently commented on the word redolent
From p. 96 of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby: "For Daisy was young and her artificial world was redolent of orchids and pleasant, cheerful snobbery and orchestras which set the rhythm of the year, summing up the sadness and suggestiveness of life in new tunes."
September 29, 2012
qms commented on the word redolent
His winter reveries are redolent
Of summer and of meadow scent,
Of long golden days
And amorous ways
Too sweet to be wholly innocent.
November 22, 2015