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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. An offensive odor; a stench. See Synonyms at stench.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Any strong offensive smell; stench.

Wiktionary

  1. n. An unpleasant smell.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A strong, offensive smell; stench; fetidness.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a distinctive odor that is offensively unpleasant

Etymologies

  1. Middle English fetoure, from Latin fētor, from fētēre, to stink. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • milosrdenstvi See also foetor. Jan 20, 2010

  • chained_bear "I had picked out a distinct stench of sickness amid the general fetor. Not only the ghost of long-dried vomit, but the sweet smell of purulent discharge and that indefinable musty, yeast-rising odor that seems to be simply the smell of illness itself."
    —Diana Gabaldon, The Fiery Cross (NY: Bantam Dell, 2001), 419 Jan 20, 2010

  • chained_bear "...went down into the unbreathable fetor, watched nervously by the slaver's hands, who held their whips in an uncertain, awkward fashion..."
    --P. O'Brian, The Commodore, 190 Mar 17, 2008

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