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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

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


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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. [1913 Webster] 2. One devoted to dainty or luxurious sensual enjoyments, esp. to the luxuries of the table. Syn: Voluptuary; sensualist. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

epicure n 1: a person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment (especially good food and drink) [syn: epicure, gourmet, gastronome, bon vivant, epicurean, foodie]
The Devil's Dictionary (1881-1906):

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.