epicure.

A person with cultivated tastes who particularly enjoys fine food and drink.

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Words that belong together

• a discerning epicure
• an epicure’s taste

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The epicure praised the plain broth more warmly than the elaborate dessert.

He traveled as an epicure, remembering meals more clearly than monuments.

Usage notes

Primary category: psychological / character. Forms: Singular epicure; plural epicures. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.