Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A fragrant essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The chemical composition of this valuable perfume has been carefully studied, and its principal constituent, geraniol (C10H18O), obtained from cheaper sources (as from the essential oil of Indian grass or Turkish geranium), is now — with perhaps the addition of some of the minor constituents, also from relatively cheap sources — offered for sale as synthetic attar of roses.
  • noun In the East Indies, a general term for a perfume from flowers.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A fragrant essential oil; esp., a volatile and highly fragrant essential oil obtained from the petals of roses.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun an essential oil extracted from flowers
  • noun a perfume made from this oil

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Persian ‘aṭir, perfumed, from Arabic, aromatic; see עṭr in Semitic roots.]

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From Persian عطر (’atir, "scent"), from عطر (ʕiṭr, "perfume").

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  • Attar of Roses

    April 30, 2009