epicure

epicure
    n 1: a person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment (especially
         good food and drink) [syn: {epicure}, {gourmet},
         {gastronome}, {bon vivant}, {epicurean}, {foodie}]
    

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.
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   2. One devoted to dainty or luxurious sensual enjoyments,
      esp. to the luxuries of the table.

   Syn: Voluptuary; sensualist.
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EPICURE, n.  An opponent of Epicurus, an abstemious philosopher who,
holding that pleasure should be the chief aim of man, wasted no time
in gratification from the senses.
    

72 Moby Thesaurus words for "epicure":
      Brillat-Savarin, Cyrenaic, Heliogabalus, Lucullus, Sardanapalus,
      aesthete, 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, epicurean, expert, feeder,
      flesh-eater, fruitarian, gastronome, gastronomer, gastronomist,
      glutton, good judge, gourmand, gourmet, 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