Gourmet

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Gourmet \Gour`met"\ (g[=oo]r`m[asl]"), n. [F.]
     A connoisseur in eating and drinking; an epicure.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  gourmet
       n : a person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment (especially
           good food and drink) [syn: {epicure}, {gastronome}, {bon
           vivant}, {epicurean}, {foodie}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  71 Moby Thesaurus words for "gourmet":
     Brillat-Savarin, Cyrenaic, Heliogabalus, Lucullus, Sardanapalus,
     amateur, arbiter, arbiter elegantiarum, arbiter of taste,
     authority, board-and-roomer, boarder, bon vivant, cannibal,
     carnivore, carpet knight, cognoscente, collector, connaisseur,
     connoisseur, connoisseur of food, consumer, critic, dilettante,
     diner, diner-out, eater, eater-out, epicure, epicurean, expert,
     feeder, flesh-eater, fruitarian, gastronome, gastronomer,
     gastronomist, glutton, good judge, gourmand, grain-eater,
     graminivore, granivore, hedonist, herbivore, high liver,
     hungry mouth, judge, lactovegetarian, luncher, man-eater, maven,
     meat-eater, mouth, omnivore, omophagist, pantophagist, phytophage,
     picnicker, plant-eater, pleasure-seeker, predacean, refined palate,
     sensualist, sensuist, swine, sybarite, trencherman, vegetarian,
     virtuoso, voluptuary