'Epicure' definitions:
Definition of 'epicure'
(from WordNet)
noun
A person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment (especially good food and drink) [syn: epicure, gourmet, gastronome, bon vivant, epicurean, foodie]
Definition of 'Epicure'
From: GCIDE
- Epicure \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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. One devoted to dainty or luxurious sensual enjoyments, esp. to the luxuries of the table.
- Syn: Voluptuary; sensualist. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'epicure'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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