gastronome

Questions about gastronome

What does gastronome mean?

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

How many syllables are in gastronome?

gastronome has 3 syllables and divides as ga-stro-nome under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for gastronome?

Close synonyms include epicure, gourmet, bon vivant, 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 gastronome a common word?

gastronome 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.