cologne
/kəˈloʊn/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.57 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A city and town in Minnesota, United States.
noun
Any of a family of fresh, citrus-based fragrances distilled using extracts from citrus, floral, and woody ingredients, said to have been developed in the early 18th century in Cologne, Germany.
Uncountable
noun
A fragrance typically worn by a man as opposed to a woman, regardless of its concentration.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Roads on either side of the river Rhine will be closed as authorities seal off the large evacuation zone. The Unesco World Heritage Cologne Cathedral sits just outside the area."
- "You stink of too much cologne."
- "The perfume market has always been a two-tiered one, with a relatively small number of buyers of small bottles of real perfume and eau de parfum that cost large amounts of money, and a larger number of buyers of somewhat larger bottles of cologne and eau de toilette that are considerably more affordable but not always cheap."
- "He wore some aftershave or cologne that gave him a heavy, nasty, sweet scent."
Etymology
From Middle English Coloyne, from Old French Cologne, from Latin Colōnia Agrippīna (“Agrippine Colony”), a settlement named after Agrippina, the mother of Roman Emperor Nero; colōnia (“colony”) comes from colōnus (“farmer; colonist”), from verb colo, colere (“till, cultivate, worship”). Doublet of Colonia, colony, and Köln, from German.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: Coloyne, Cologne, Colōnia Agrippīna, *kʷel-, eau de Cologne
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /kəˈloʊn/
- British English: /kəˈləʊn/