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I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets.
Hamlin Garland

Meaning of "fragrant" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD FRAGRANT

From Latin frāgrāns, from frāgrāre to emit a smell.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF FRAGRANT

fragrant  [ˈfreɪɡrənt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FRAGRANT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Fragrant is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES FRAGRANT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

fragrant

Aroma compound

An aroma compound, also known as odorant, aroma, fragrance, or flavor, is a chemical compound that has a smell or odor. A chemical compound has a smell or odor when it is sufficiently volatile to be transported to the olfactory system in the upper part of the nose. Generally molecules meeting this specification have molecular weights of <300. Flavors affect both the sense of taste and smell, whereas fragrances affect only smell. Flavors tend to be naturally occurring, and fragrances tend to be synthetic. Aroma compounds can be found in food, wine, spices, perfumes, fragrance oils, and essential oils. For example, many form biochemically during ripening of fruits and other crops. In wines, most form as byproducts of fermentation. Also, many of the aroma compounds play a significant role in the production of flavorants, which are used in the food service industry to flavor, improve, and generally increase the appeal of their products. An odorizer may add an odorant to a dangerous odorless substance, like propane, natural gas, or hydrogen, as a warning.

Definition of fragrant in the English dictionary

The definition of fragrant in the dictionary is having a pleasant or sweet smell.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH FRAGRANT


apparent
əˈpærənt
conflagrant
kənˈfleɪɡrənt
current
ˈkʌrənt
different
ˈdɪfərənt
durant
ˈdjʊərənt
emigrant
ˈɛmɪɡrənt
flagrant
ˈfleɪɡrənt
immigrant
ˈɪmɪɡrənt
infragrant
ɪnˈfreɪɡrənt
inmigrant
ˈɪnˌmaɪɡrənt
integrant
ˈɪntəɡrənt
migrant
ˈmaɪɡrənt
nonimmigrant
ˌnɒnˈɪmɪɡrənt
nonmigrant
ˌnɒnˈmaɪɡrənt
parent
ˈpɛərənt
torrent
ˈtɒrənt
transmigrant
trænzˈmaɪɡrənt
transparent
trænsˈpærənt
vagrant
ˈveɪɡrənt
vibrant
ˈvaɪbrənt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE FRAGRANT

fragmental
fragmentally
fragmentarily
fragmentariness
fragmentary
fragmentate
fragmentation
fragmentation grenade
fragmented
fragmentise
fragmentize
Fragonard
fragor
fragrance
fragrance-free
fragrancies
fragrancy
fragrant orchid
fragrantly
fragrantness

WORDS THAT END LIKE FRAGRANT

block grant
capitation grant
death grant
development grant
digital immigrant
economic migrant
equalization grant
five-star restaurant
grant
home improvement grant
illegal immigrant
improvement grant
investment grant
land grant
landed immigrant
maintenance grant
maternity grant
regrant
restaurant
student grant

Synonyms and antonyms of fragrant in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «FRAGRANT»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «fragrant» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of fragrant

Translation of «fragrant» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF FRAGRANT

Find out the translation of fragrant to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of fragrant from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «fragrant» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

芳香的
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

aromático
570 millions of speakers

English

fragrant
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

सुगंधित
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

عبق
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

ароматные
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

fragrante
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

সুগন্ধি
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

odorant
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Wangi
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

duftend
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

芳しい
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

향기로운
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Wangi
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

thơm
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மணம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

सुवासिक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kokulu
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

profumato
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

pachnący
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

ароматні
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

parfumat
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αρωματικά
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

geurige
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

doftande
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

duftende
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of fragrant

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «FRAGRANT»

The term «fragrant» is quite widely used and occupies the 25.865 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «FRAGRANT» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «fragrant» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «fragrant» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about fragrant

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10 QUOTES WITH «FRAGRANT»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word fragrant.
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Ken Auletta
Stanford University is so startlingly paradisial, so fragrant and sunny, it's as if you could eat from the trees and live happily forever.
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Jakob Bohme
The sweet quality is set opposite to the bitter, and is a gracious, amiable, blessed and pleasant quality, a refreshing of the life, an allaying of the fierceness. It maketh all pleasant and friendly in every creature; it maketh the vegetables of the earth fragrant and of good taste, affording fair, yellow, white and ruddy colours.
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James Boswell
I suppose no person ever enjoyed with more relish the infusion of this fragrant leaf than did Johnson.
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Raymond Chandler
It is not a fragrant world.
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Christopher Columbus
The air soft as that of Seville in April, and so fragrant that it was delicious to breathe it.
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Ray Comfort
Even Helen Keller, who was born blind and deaf, could see God. No doubt, in her silent darkness, every fragrant flower, every ray of the warm sun, every taste that touched her tongue told her that there was a God who created all things. Jodie Foster shouldn't therefore be surprised that people are surprised that she's an atheist.
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Theodore Dreiser
I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny existence.
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Roger Ebert
There is a part of me that will forever want to be walking under autumn leaves, carrying a briefcase containing the works of Shakespeare and Yeats and a portable chess set. I will pass an old tree under which once on a summer night I lay on the grass with a fragrant young woman and we quoted e.e. cummings back and forth.
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Hamlin Garland
I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets.
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Alexander Henry
It may be that which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet,' but I should be loath to see a rose on a maiden's breast substituted by a flower, however beautiful and fragrant it might be, that is went by the name of the skunk lily.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FRAGRANT»

Discover the use of fragrant in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to fragrant and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Fragrant Rice: My Continuing Love Affair with Bali
A food memoir both touching and informative
Janet De Neefe, 2006
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The Fragrant Heavens
With The Fragrant Heavens Valerie Ann Worwood breaks new ground by examining the use of fragrance in spirituality.
Valerie Ann Worwood, 2013
3
The Foul and the Fragrant: Odor and the French Social ...
In a book whose insight and originality have already had a dazzling impact in France, Alain Corbin has put the sense of smell on the historical map.
Alain Corbin, 1986
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The Fragrant Pharmacy: A Home and Health Care Guide to ...
Here is a comprehensive encyclopaedia of 'medicines out of the earth', those miracles of creation which revitalise and rejuvenate, enhance our emotions and help our work and play.
Valerie Ann Worwood, 1990
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The Fragrant Mind: Aromatherapy for Personality, Mind, Mood ...
This unique guide to aromatherapy examines the effects of fragrance on our minds and emotions and advises on using fragrance for emotional healing and personality enhancement.
Valerie Ann Worwood, 2012
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Fragrant Ornamental Plants in the Philippines
This book answers the urgent need for more literature on fragrant ornamental plants of the Philippines.
Teresita Lantin Rosario, 2005
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Fragrant Palm Leaves: Journals, 1962-1966
From his years as a student and teaching assistant at Princeton and Columbia, to his efforts to negotiate peace and a better life for the Vietnamese, Fragrant Palm Leaves offers an elegant and profound glimpse into the heart and mind of one ...
Thich Nhat Hanh, 1999
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Fragrant Orchids: A Guide to Selecting, Growing, and Enjoying
This first-ever guide will help gardeners choose, grow, and showcase orchids with the right look and most enjoyable scents.
Steven A. Frowine, 2005
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A Fragrant Introduction to Terpenoid Chemistry
Ideal as both an introduction to terpenoid chemistry and as a refresher course, this title will prove invaluable to students, lecturers and industrialists alike.
Charles Sell, 2003
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A Dictionary of Hong Kong English: Words from the Fragrant ...
This book is the first dictionary of Hong Kong English.
Patrick J. Cummings, Hans-Georg Wolf, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FRAGRANT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term fragrant is used in the context of the following news items.
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Best holiday reads 2015
I have two lemon trees and a calamondin, which produce good-sized, fragrant but oddly shaped fruit, so perhaps there's more that they need. «The Guardian, Jul 15»
2
Good wine at rock-bottom prices
The hunt is worthwhile, though: the fragrant, juicy raspberry and cherry of Otra Vida Malbec, from the Argentine operation of Chilean producer ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
3
Fellowship and feasting for Ramadan
The fragrant chicken and rice dish he enjoyed most was made by a mother and daughter who came to America from Iraq. Back home ... «Fredericksburg.com, Jul 15»
4
Eating along the 2 line: Some best bites in Brooklyn Heights are …
A pita sandwich filled with vegetables, thick tahini sauce and his fragrant, freshly made falafel loaded with chopped parsley is just $3.50, while ... «New York Daily News, Jul 15»
5
Ten beers to drink before you die(t)
His most famous liquid legacy, however, is this award-winning pale ale – medium bodied, fragrant with dashes of sugar-dusted grapefruit. «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
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Hidden Gems to Visit in Amsterdam
Visually appealing and fragrant, this market is one you'll be talking about for a while. Amsterdam Riding School. Not only is this the oldest riding ... «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
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10 Fragrant, Must-Try Gins for Classic Cocktails
Crisp, cool and fragrant, the number of gins on the shelves has multiplied like crazy in recent years. Blame the classic cocktail renaissance: We can't seem to get ... «Wine Enthusiast Magazine, Jul 15»
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Fragrant message in a bottle
HYDERABAD: A heady melange of fragrances wafts through the air. It is a treat for the olfactory senses. For those with a taste for tradition, ... «Times of India, Jul 15»
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5 Best Fragrant Flowers You Should Add to Your Garden
Everyone knows you're supposed to stop and smell the roses. What about other fragrant flowers? If you prefer more than rose bushes for your ... «Wide Open Country, Jul 15»
10
What makes a flower fragrant?
Have you ever wondered why some flowers, such as old fashioned roses have a lovely fragrance and others, especially some of the newer ... «Gettysburg Times, Jul 15»

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