gastronome

Borrowed from French gastronome.

gastronome (plural gastronomes)

1. a lover of good food; a connoisseur or gourmet

   Synonyms: gastronomist, gastronomer

   • 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XI, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 231:

     A gastronome ought to fast sometimes on principle: we appreciate no pleasures unless we are occasionally debarred from them. Restraint is the golden rule of enjoyment.

• gastronomy

• omegatrons

• IPA^(key): /ɡas.tʁɔ.nɔm/

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• Homophone: gastronomes

gastronome m or f by sense (plural gastronomes)

1. gastronome

• “gastronome”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• IPA^(key): /ɡaˈstrɔ.no.me/
• Rhymes: -ɔnome
• Hyphenation: ga‧strò‧no‧me

gastronome f

1. plural of gastronoma