About The Word Epicure
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Epicure
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What's The Definition Of Epicure?
[n] a person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment (especially good food and drink)
Synonyms | Synonyms for Epicure: bon vivant | epicurean | gastronome | gourmet Related Terms | Find terms related to Epicure: aesthete | amateur | arbiter | arbiter elegantiarum | arbiter of taste | authority | board-and-roomer | boarder | bon vivant | Brillat-Savarin | cannibal | carnivore | carpet knight | cognoscente | collector | connaisseur | connoisseur | connoisseur of food | consumer | critic | Cyrenaic | dilettante | diner | diner-out | eater | eater-out | epicurean | expert | feeder | flesh-eater | fruitarian | gastronome | gastronomer | gastronomist | glutton | good judge | gourmand | gourmet | grain-eater | graminivore | granivore | hedonist | Heliogabalus | herbivore | high liver | hungry mouth | judge | lactovegetarian | Lucullus | luncher | man-eater | maven | meat-eater | mouth | omnivore | omophagist | pantophagist | phytophage | picnicker | plant-eater | pleasure-seeker | predacean | refined palate | Sardanapalus | sensualist | sensuist | swine | sybarite | trencherman | vegetarian | virtuoso | voluptuary See Also | sensualist Epicure In Webster's Dictionary \Ep"i*cure\, n. [L. Epicurus, Gr. ?, a famous Greek
philosopher, who has been regarded, but erroneously, as
teaching a doctrine of refined voluptuousness.]
1. A follower of Epicurus; an Epicurean. [Obs.] --Bacon.
2. One devoted to dainty or luxurious sensual enjoyments,
esp. to the luxuries of the table.
Syn: Voluptuary; sensualist.
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