Meaning of EPICURE
| Pronunciation: | | 'epu`kyûr
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| | Definition: | | [n] a person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment (especially good food and drink) |
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| | Synonyms: | | bon vivant, epicurean, gastronome, gourmet |
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| | See Also: | | sensualist | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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.
2. One devoted to dainty or luxurious sensual enjoyments,
esp. to the luxuries of the table.
Syn: Voluptuary; sensualist.
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| Dream Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | Dreaming that you are an epicure means that you will cultivate your taste to the finest and highest potential.
Dreaming that you are sitting at the table at epicure means that you will enjoy some fine distinction, but will be surrounded by people of selfish means.
Dreaming that you are trying to satisfy an epicure means that you will have a distinguished but tyrannical lover. |
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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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