gourmet

Etymology
Borrowed from, from , from from , , apparently from , , from , akin to 🇨🇬. Cognate of and. More at.

Adjective

 * 1)  Fine; of superior quality.

Usage notes
Gourmet has become somewhat debased by marketing usage, and is considered by some a pretentious middlebrow term. Such users tend to prefer terms such as (emphasizing the craft) for fine food.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: деликатесен
 * Dutch: voor fijnproevers,
 * Finnish:, gurmee
 * French:
 * German: Feinschmecker-, Genießer-, Feinkost-
 * Portuguese:
 * Swedish: gourmet-, gourmé-

Noun

 * 1) A connoisseur in eating and drinking; someone who takes their food seriously.

Usage notes
Gourmet emphasizes interest in quality of food and enjoyment of eating, sometimes to an obsessive degree: someone who “lives to eat rather than eating to live”. By contrast, a is someone more interested in quantity of food than quality of food.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, 美食者
 * Czech: ,
 * Dutch:, , , fijnproefster, kenner van de keuken
 * Finnish:, , gurmandi
 * French:, , , , ,
 * Georgian: გურმანი
 * German:, , ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ὀψοφάγος
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: sælkeri
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, ,
 * Latvian: gardēdis, gardēde, gastronoms, gastronome
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: feinschmecker, matskjønner, gastronom, gourmet
 * Nynorsk: finsmakar, matskjønar, gastronom, gourmet
 * Polish:, smakoszka
 * Portuguese:, gastrónomo , gastrônomo
 * Russian:, ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Spanish: gastrónomo,, ,
 * Swedish:, matkännare, , , ,
 * Thai: นักกิน
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian: гурма́н, гурма́нка

Etymology 1
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1) a person of refined palate for food and drink, a gourmet, a foodie
 * 2) a kind of festive meal, similar to raclette or Chinese hot pot, prepared at the table by the diners in individual pots heated by a raclette grill

Etymology
From.

Etymology
, from from, from  of unknown origin, perhaps from  from. Cognate of and. More at.

Noun

 * 1)  a wine expert, especially one who is adept at determining the label, date, and sundry other qualities solely by smatch
 * 2)  a culinary connoisseur,

Etymology
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Etymology
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Adjective

 * 1)  ; fine

Noun

 * 1)  a person who appreciates good food

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1) someone to whom good food is very important; a