What does bon vivant mean?

bon vivant means "a person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment (especially good food and drink)".

What is another word for bon vivant?

Close synonyms include epicure, gourmet, gastronome, epicurean, foodie. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bon vivant a common word?

bon vivant is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

bon vivant — meaning, pronunciation and definition

noun

1 senseA person, place, thing, quality or idea.

1.
a person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment (especially good food and drink)
Synonymsepicure gourmet gastronome epicurean foodie
Broadersensualist

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What does bon vivant mean?: bon vivant means "a person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment (especially good food and drink)".

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