noun
Meaning 1
A person who makes or sells perfume.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
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Standard Lemma guide
perfumer
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Pronunciation
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UK: /pəˈfjuːmə/
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UK: /ˈpəːfjʊmə/
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noun
Meaning 2
One who perfumes something.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 3
a person who makes (and sells) perfumes
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
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Broader terms: maker, shaper
History
Etymology
From perfume (noun and verb) + -er, perhaps modelled on Middle French parfumeur.
Across languages
Translations
35 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: عَطَّار (ʕaṭṭār) — person who makes or sells perfume
- Arabic: عَطَّارَة (ʕaṭṭāra) — person who makes or sells perfume
- Catalan: perfumer — person who makes or sells perfume
- Chinese Mandarin: 香水製造商 /香水制造商 (xiāngshuǐ zhìzàoshāng) — person who makes or sells perfume
- Chinese Mandarin: 售香水者 (shòu xiāngshuǐ zhě) — person who makes or sells perfume
- Finnish: hajuvesimyyjä — person who makes or sells perfume
- Finnish: parfymisti — person who makes or sells perfume
- Finnish: parfymööri — person who makes or sells perfume
- French: parfumeur — person who makes or sells perfume
- French: parfumeuse — person who makes or sells perfume
- Galician: perfumeiro — person who makes or sells perfume
- Galician: perfumista — person who makes or sells perfume
- German: Parfümeur — person who makes or sells perfume
- Ancient Greek: μυρεψός (murepsós) — person who makes or sells perfume
- Mycenaean Greek: 𐀀𐀩𐀞𐀿𐀃 (a-re-pa-zo-o) — person who makes or sells perfume
- Gujarati: સરૈયો (saraiyo) — person who makes or sells perfume
- Irish: ungadóir — person who makes or sells perfume
- Italian: profumiere — person who makes or sells perfume
- Japanese: パフューマー (pafyūmā) — person who makes or sells perfume
- Japanese: 調香師 (chōkōshi) — person who makes or sells perfume
- Korean: 조향사 (johyangsa) — person who makes or sells perfume
- Latin: unguentārius — person who makes or sells perfume
- Persian: عطار ('attâr) — person who makes or sells perfume
- Persian: عطرفروش ('atr-foruš) — person who makes or sells perfume
- Persian: عطرساز ('atr-sâz) — person who makes or sells perfume
- Persian: بوفروش (būforūš) — person who makes or sells perfume
- Portuguese: perfumista — person who makes or sells perfume
- Romanian: parfumier — person who makes or sells perfume
- Romanian: parfumieră — person who makes or sells perfume
- Russian: парфюме́р (parfjumér) — person who makes or sells perfume
- Spanish: perfumista — person who makes or sells perfume
- Turkish: parfümcü — person who makes or sells perfume
- Ottoman Turkish: عطار (ʼattar, ʼaktar) — person who makes or sells perfume
- Ottoman Turkish: عطرجی (ʼıtrcı, ʼıtırcı) — person who makes or sells perfume
- Ugaritic: 𐎗𐎖𐎈 (rqḥ) — person who makes or sells perfume
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