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deodorant

adj · noun · 4 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • Received-Pronunciation: /diˈəʊ.də.ɹənt/
  • General-American: /diˈoʊ.də.ɹənt/
  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • CMU ARPABET: D IY0 OW1 D ER0 AH0 N T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

adj

Meaning 1

acting or including an agent to eliminate, reduce, mask, or control odor.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

Any agent acting to eliminate, reduce, mask, or control odor.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

Any agent acting to eliminate, reduce, mask, or control odor.

An odor-controlling substance applied to the underarm to counteract odor from perspiration.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

a toiletry applied to the skin in order to mask unpleasant odors

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: deodourant

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: toiletry, toilet articles

History

Etymology

From Latin de- + odorans, present participle of odorare (“to smell”), from odor (“a smell”); see odor. By surface analysis, de- + odor + -ant.

Across languages

Translations

102 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Bulgarian: дезодорант (dezodorant) — acting to control odor
  • German: geruchtilgend — acting to control odor
  • Greek: αποσμητικός (aposmitikós) — acting to control odor
  • Italian: deodorante — acting to control odor
  • Norman: d'sodothant — acting to control odor
  • Asturian: desodorante — any agent to eliminate, reduce, mask, or control odor
  • Bulgarian: дезодора́нт (dezodoránt) — any agent to eliminate, reduce, mask, or control odor
  • Finnish: hajunpoistoaine — any agent to eliminate, reduce, mask, or control odor
  • Finnish: hajunpoistaja — any agent to eliminate, reduce, mask, or control odor
  • Galician: desodorizante — any agent to eliminate, reduce, mask, or control odor
  • Greek: αποσμητικό (aposmitikó) — any agent to eliminate, reduce, mask, or control odor
  • Indonesian: deodoran — any agent to eliminate, reduce, mask, or control odor
  • Italian: deodorante — any agent to eliminate, reduce, mask, or control odor
  • Macedonian: дезодора́нс (dezodoráns) — any agent to eliminate, reduce, mask, or control odor
  • Norman: d'sodorant — any agent to eliminate, reduce, mask, or control odor
  • Polish: dezodorant — any agent to eliminate, reduce, mask, or control odor
  • Portuguese: desodorante — any agent to eliminate, reduce, mask, or control odor
  • Portuguese: desodorizante — any agent to eliminate, reduce, mask, or control odor
  • Russian: дезодора́нт (dezodoránt) — any agent to eliminate, reduce, mask, or control odor
  • Albanian: deodorant — odor-controlling cosmetic for the underarm
  • Arabic: مُزِيل اَلْعَرَق (muzīl al-ʕaraq) — odor-controlling cosmetic for the underarm
  • Arabic: مُزِيل اَلرَّائِحَة (muzīl ar-rāʔiḥa) — odor-controlling cosmetic for the underarm
  • Arabic: مُزِيل عَرَق (muzīl ʕarag) — odor-controlling cosmetic for the underarm
  • Armenian: հոտազերծիչ (hotazercičʻ) — odor-controlling cosmetic for the underarm
  • Asturian: desodorante — odor-controlling cosmetic for the underarm
  • Azerbaijani: dezodorant — odor-controlling cosmetic for the underarm
  • Belarusian: дэзадара́нт (dezadaránt) — odor-controlling cosmetic for the underarm
  • Bulgarian: дезодора́нт (dezodoránt) — odor-controlling cosmetic for the underarm
  • Catalan: desodorant — odor-controlling cosmetic for the underarm
  • Chinese Mandarin: 體香劑 /体香剂 (tǐxiāngjì) — odor-controlling cosmetic for the underarm
  • Chinese Mandarin: 除臭劑 /除臭剂 (chúchòujì) — odor-controlling cosmetic for the underarm
  • Chinese Mandarin: 防臭劑 /防臭剂 (fángchòujì) — odor-controlling cosmetic for the underarm
  • Chinese Mandarin: 脫臭劑 /脱臭剂 (tuōchòujì) — odor-controlling cosmetic for the underarm
  • Czech: deodorant — odor-controlling cosmetic for the underarm
  • Danish: deodorant — odor-controlling cosmetic for the underarm
  • Dutch: deodorant — odor-controlling cosmetic for the underarm
  • Dutch: deo — odor-controlling cosmetic for the underarm
  • Esperanto: senodorigilo — odor-controlling cosmetic for the underarm
  • Estonian: desodorant — odor-controlling cosmetic for the underarm
  • Faroese: deodorantur — odor-controlling cosmetic for the underarm
  • Finnish: deodorantti — odor-controlling cosmetic for the underarm
  • Finnish: dödö — odor-controlling cosmetic for the underarm
  • French: déodorant — odor-controlling cosmetic for the underarm
  • Galician: desodorizante — odor-controlling cosmetic for the underarm
  • Georgian: დეზოდორანტი (dezodoranṭi) — odor-controlling cosmetic for the underarm
  • German: Deodorant — odor-controlling cosmetic for the underarm
  • German: Deo — odor-controlling cosmetic for the underarm
  • Greek: αποσμητικό (aposmitikó) — odor-controlling cosmetic for the underarm
  • Greenlandic: unersunniiaat — odor-controlling cosmetic for the underarm
  • Hawaiian: hamo pōʻaeʻae — odor-controlling cosmetic for the underarm
  • Hebrew: דֶּאוֹדוֹרַנְט (deodoránt') — odor-controlling cosmetic for the underarm
  • Hebrew: אַל־רֵיחַ (al-ré'akh) — odor-controlling cosmetic for the underarm
  • Hindi: दुर्गन्धहर (durgandhahar) — odor-controlling cosmetic for the underarm
  • Hindi: गंधहर (gandhhar) — odor-controlling cosmetic for the underarm
  • Hindi: गन्धहर (gandhahar) — odor-controlling cosmetic for the underarm
  • Hungarian: dezodor — odor-controlling cosmetic for the underarm
  • Icelandic: svitalyktareyðir — odor-controlling cosmetic for the underarm
  • Indonesian: deodoran — odor-controlling cosmetic for the underarm
  • Italian: deodorante — odor-controlling cosmetic for the underarm
  • Japanese: デオドラント (deodoranto) — odor-controlling cosmetic for the underarm
  • Kazakh: дезодорант (dezodorant) — odor-controlling cosmetic for the underarm
  • Khmer: ថ្នាំបំបាត់ក្លិន (thnambɑmbatklən) — odor-controlling cosmetic for the underarm
  • Korean: 탈취제 (talchwije) — odor-controlling cosmetic for the underarm
  • Korean: 데오도란트 (de'odoranteu) — odor-controlling cosmetic for the underarm
  • Kyrgyz: дезодорант (dezodorant) — odor-controlling cosmetic for the underarm
  • Lao: ຢາດັບກິ່ນ (yā dap kin) — odor-controlling cosmetic for the underarm
  • Latin: foetōris delumentum — odor-controlling cosmetic for the underarm
  • Latvian: dezodorants — odor-controlling cosmetic for the underarm
  • Lithuanian: dezodorantas — odor-controlling cosmetic for the underarm
  • Macedonian: дезодора́нс (dezodoráns) — odor-controlling cosmetic for the underarm
  • Malay: ubat ketiak — odor-controlling cosmetic for the underarm
  • Malay: deodoran — odor-controlling cosmetic for the underarm
  • Mongolian: дезодорант (dezodorant) — odor-controlling cosmetic for the underarm
  • Mongolian: үнэр дарагч (üner daragč) — odor-controlling cosmetic for the underarm
  • Norman: d'sodorant — odor-controlling cosmetic for the underarm
  • Norwegian Bokmål: deodorant — odor-controlling cosmetic for the underarm
  • Persian: دئودورانت (de'odorânt) — odor-controlling cosmetic for the underarm
  • Persian: بو زدا (bu zodâ) — odor-controlling cosmetic for the underarm
  • Polish: dezodorant — odor-controlling cosmetic for the underarm
  • Portuguese: desodorante — odor-controlling cosmetic for the underarm
  • Portuguese: desodorizante — odor-controlling cosmetic for the underarm
  • Romanian: deodorant — odor-controlling cosmetic for the underarm
  • Romansh: deodorant — odor-controlling cosmetic for the underarm
  • Russian: дезодора́нт (dezodoránt) — odor-controlling cosmetic for the underarm
  • Serbo-Croatian: дезодоранс — odor-controlling cosmetic for the underarm
  • Serbo-Croatian: dezodorans — odor-controlling cosmetic for the underarm
  • Slovak: deodorant — odor-controlling cosmetic for the underarm
  • Slovene: deodorant — odor-controlling cosmetic for the underarm
  • Spanish: desodorante — odor-controlling cosmetic for the underarm
  • Swahili: kuondoa harufu — odor-controlling cosmetic for the underarm
  • Swahili: dawa ya kikwapa — odor-controlling cosmetic for the underarm
  • Swedish: deodorant — odor-controlling cosmetic for the underarm
  • Tajik: дезодорант (dezodorant) — odor-controlling cosmetic for the underarm
  • Thai: ยาดับกลิ่น (yaa-dàp-glìn) — odor-controlling cosmetic for the underarm
  • Tibetan: དྲི་ངན་སངས་སྨན (dri ngan sangs sman) — odor-controlling cosmetic for the underarm
  • Turkish: deodorant — odor-controlling cosmetic for the underarm
  • Ukrainian: дезодора́нт (dezodoránt) — odor-controlling cosmetic for the underarm
  • Uzbek: dezodorant — odor-controlling cosmetic for the underarm
  • Vietnamese: bay mùi — odor-controlling cosmetic for the underarm
  • Vietnamese: chất khử mùi — odor-controlling cosmetic for the underarm
  • Welsh: diaroglydd — odor-controlling cosmetic for the underarm
  • Yiddish: דעאָדאָראַנט (deodorant) — odor-controlling cosmetic for the underarm