Polyglot Dictionary

hedor

/eˈðoɾ/

el noun C1

el (masc.) la (fem.)

Underline = a spelling pattern that usually signals that gender.

N Register Neutral Era Current Frequency Academic Domain General Tone Neutral

Forms

plural
los hedores

Meaning

  1. stench

    • Había un hedor terrible.

      There was a terrible stench.

N Category Thing Concreteness Concrete Animacy Inanimate Countability Countable Scope Individual

Similar words

peste

hedor and peste are close synonyms for "stench"; peste also separately means "plague," a disease.

Similar in other languages

French

puanteur

puanteur is the French word for the same thing — both mean "stench."

Portuguese

fedor

fedor is the Portuguese word for the same thing — both mean "stench."

Practice

1 What does hedor mean?

2 Fill the gap: Había un ___ terrible.

3 Which fingerprint chart matches hedor?

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