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gourmet

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gour·met  (gr-m, grm)
n.
A connoisseur of fine food and drink.

[French, from Old French, alteration (influenced by gourmand, glutton) of groumet, servant, valet in charge of wines, from Middle English grom, boy, valet.]
Usage Note: A gourmet is a person with discriminating taste in food and wine, as is a gourmand. Because gourmand can also mean "one who enjoys food in great quantities" or even "a gluttonous eater," care should be taken to make clear its intended sense. An epicure is much the same as a gourmet, but the word may sometimes carry overtones of excessive refinement. This use of epicure is a misrepresentation of Epicurean philosophy, which, while it professed that pleasure was the highest good, was hardly given to excessive concern with food and drink.

gourmet [goor-may]
Noun
an expert on good food and drink [French]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.gourmetgourmet - a person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment (especially good food and drink)
sensualist - a person who enjoys sensuality

gourmet
noun connoisseur, foodie (informal) bon vivant (French) epicure, gastronome
Translations
gourmet [ˈguəmeɪ] ngastrónomo/a m/f

gourmet [ˈguəmeɪ] ngourmet m, gastronome m/f

gourmet [ˈguəmeɪ] nFeinschmecker(in) m(f), Gourmet m

gourmet [ˈguəmeɪ] nbuongustaio/a

gourmet
n gourmet [ˈguəmei]
a person who enjoys and knows a lot about good food and wines. fynproewer, koskenner ذَوّاقه ، ذَوّاق الأكل гастроном gurmán gourmet der Feinschmecker καλοφαγάς gourmet, gastrónomo gurmaan آدم خوش خوراک kulinaristi gourmet אֲנִין טַעַם खाना और शराब का शौकीन gurman ínyenc penggemar makanan mewah sælkeri buongustaio 美食家 gurmanas, smaguris gardēdis gourmet gourmet, fijnproever matskjønner, gourmet smakosz gastrónomo gourmet (cunoscător de mâncăruri şi bău­­turi fine) гурман znalec jedla a nápojov, labužník gurman sladokusac gourmet นักชิมอาหาร damak titizi 食物品嘗家 гурман اچھے کھانوں کا ذائقہ شناس người sành ăn uống 食物


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I speak not of the finicking joy of the gourmet, but the joy of an honest appetite in ecstasy, the elemental joy of absorbing quantities of fresh simple food,--mere roast lamb, new potatoes, and peas of living green.
Father Brown gathered, from the course of the conversation, that Cray, the other gourmet, had to leave before the usual lunch-time; but that Putnam, his host, not to be done out of a final feast with an old crony, had arranged for a special dejeuner to be set out and consumed in the course of the morning, while Audrey and other graver persons were at morning service.
The acquaintance, a gentleman of uncertain breed, equally willing, was chewing Bill's paw with the gusto of a gourmet.
 
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