It's the Word of the Day podcast for June 4th.

Today's word is redolent, spelled R-E-D-O-L-E-N-T.

Redolent is an adjective.

As a synonym of aromatic, the word redolent can describe something that has a noticeable smell without specifying the scent, but more often it is accompanied by of or with and means full of a specified fragrance, as in redolent with incense.

Redolent can also describe something that causes thoughts or memories of something, as in

music redolent of the 1980s.

Here's the word used in a sentence from the Chicago Tribune.

The store is redolent with the aroma of warm chocolate and an ambiance evoking the agricultural roots of

cacao with plants and growing tunnels. Redolent traces back to the Latin verb olere, meaning

to smell, and is a relative of olfactory, meaning of relating to, or connected with the sense

of smell. In its earliest English uses in the 15th

century, redolent simply meant having an aroma. Today, it usually applies to a place or thing

permeated with odors. scent and memory are famously linked, and an extended use of redolent to mean evocative or suggestive

links them again, as in lollipops' redolent of childhood.

With your word of the day, I'm Peter Sakalowski.

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