gourmet

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
gourmet
    n 1: a person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment (especially
         good food and drink) [syn: {epicure}, {gourmet},
         {gastronome}, {bon vivant}, {epicurean}, {foodie}]
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Gourmet \Gour`met"\ (g[=oo]r`m[asl]"), n. [F.]
   A connoisseur in eating and drinking; an epicure.
   [1913 Webster]
    
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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

    

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