attar of roses

1. 1.

   a volatile fragrant oil obtained from fresh roses by steam distillation

   Synonymsrose oil

   Broaderattar

Questions about attar of roses

What does attar of roses mean?

attar of roses means "a volatile fragrant oil obtained from fresh roses by steam distillation".

What is another word for attar of roses?

Close synonyms include rose oil. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is attar of roses a common word?

attar of roses is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.