Word of the Week (WOW) is a weekly challenge created by Heena Rathore P. It’s a fun way to improve vocabulary by learning new words every week.
To participate, simply do a post with your word and leave the link as a comment on Heena’s WOW post for this week (above link). Illustrations are by no means necessary, but it’s up to you.
I’m up to the letter R this week. I started off by just choosing a word at random (perspicacious). Since then, I’ve been working through the alphabet, so I’ll be looking for a good word beginning with S next week.
So, here is my WOW for this week:
Word:
Redolent
Pronunciation:
red·o·lent (rɛdəʊlənt)
Audio link: Click here
Part of Speech:
Adjective
[Noun: red·o·lence, red·o·len·cy. Adverb: red·o·lent·ly]
Meaning:
1.Having a pleasant smell; fragrant e.g. a deep, rich, redolent wine
Syrah wine from Sicily. Pixabay
2. Odorous or smelling (usually followed by of) e.g. a room, redolent of furniture polish
3. Suggestive; reminiscent (usually followed by of or with) e.g. a portrait redolent of the nineteenth century
The Hay Wain by John Constable. 1821. Now in the National Gallery. Public Domain
Synonyms:
1. odorous, aromatic, odoriferous, ambrosial, aromatic, perfumed, fragrant, savoury (savory) scented, sweet, pleasant -smelling
2. (serving to bring to mind): evocative, remindful, reminiscent, resonant
Antonyms:
fetid, foul, malodorous, noisome, putrid, rancid, rank, reek, reeking, skunky, smelly, stenchful, stinking, stinky, strong
Word Origin
C14: from Latin redolens smelling (of), from redolēre to give off an odour, from red- re + olēre to smell
Use in a Sentence:
1. The chapter Margaret was reading was a sad one, redolent of regret and lost causes.
2. The forest path was redolent with the scent of pine needles.
Pine woods at Holkham Meals Reach. geograh.org.uk Attribution: Zorba the Greek. Wikimedia Commons
3. (Noun use): The farmhouse kitchen was filled with the redolence of freshly baked bread.
Farmhouse kitchen at Wensleydale Creamery. geog.org.uk. Attribtion: Ken Walton
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Thanksgiving day, or senior prom, or honeymoon night! Redolent! 😉
Very appropriate examples, William. thank you for those. 🙂
Have a good day, Millie! 🙂
You too. 🙂
Thank you for this word I might use it next time when talking about an aroma or smell. 😀
I really like the sound of this word in a sentence. It’s a good one to use when describing all types of smells. Thanks, Scrapydo. 🙂
Nice word Millie 🙂
I like it, too. 🙂 It sounds so much nicer in a sentence than just saying something has a nice smell. 😀
Yeah very and it has that something special about it ❤
Beautiful words are there for us to use. We’ve just got to remember them when we write! ❤
LOL, yep. That’s the hard part 😀
nice… esp in context of the wine reference 🙂
I should have known that one would appeal to you. 🙂 I’ve read so many references to wine in your excellent poems, I’m already convinced you rather like the stuff! And why not, I ask…? Thanks, Heath. 😀
I think I really like this word Millie. That’s a new one for me. You showed it well too and I am going to use it in my next story. 🙂
I love this word and use it quite a lot. I really hope it comes in useful to you and I’ll look out for it. I imagine it will be in one of your stories rather than your informative posts. Thanks, Joycelin. 🙂
I hope so too – best used in a story.
Un léger parfum. Ah yes, parfum will be a great ‘P’ word, should you decide to begin a sister site, in French, compiling a whole new catalog of sonorous words.
A light perfume? Yes, parfum is a great word, but a sisiter site might be taking things a bit too far… especially in French! lol 🙂 A sentence with ‘a light perfume in it might be:
‘The evening air was redolent with the light perfume of honeysuckle.’
or:
‘The empty room was redolent with Matilde’s light perfume.’
I like the word sonorous – and I’m doing ‘s’ next week! 😀
Sonorous. Check with Heena. She may steal your quixotic thunder, again.
Oh dear, I hope she doesn’t. 😦 I usually wait until Heena has put her post up, just so I can add the link to mine to it. I’d be best to check, as you say. 🙂
Laughing at myself here, because I get excited every time I see your word of the week post is up. Feeling bit ‘meh’ about redolent – maybe because it doesn’t sound to me like it should mean what it does?
That’s really interesting. I like redolence
better myself. I wonder what you think redolent should mean? Perhaps I’ll come back on that one when you’ve had time to construct an answer! lol
LOL! Oh yeah I’m good at complaining but no constructive answers myself 😉
You are’nt alone on that one! 😀
🙂
I’ve always liked this word, too. 🙂 I like its lyrical quality, and I think it also adds a rhythm when used in a sentence.