Word
gourmet
US/ˈɡʊɹˌmeɪ/
UK/ɡˈɔːmeɪ/
Definitions
01a food expert
n. a person who enjoys high-quality food and knows a lot about it.
n. a connoisseur of good food; a person with a refined palate who enjoys and understands the art of cooking and eating.
“As a true gourmet, he spent his weekends visiting the city's best restaurants.”
“The magazine is written for the dedicated gourmet who appreciates the subtle differences between regional olive oils and vintage wines.”
Synonyms
02high-quality food
adj. describes food that is very high quality, expensive, or prepared with great skill.
adj. involving or providing high-quality or exotic ingredients and skilled preparation; often used to distinguish artisanal products from mass-produced ones.
“They sell gourmet chocolates and expensive cheeses in that small shop.”
“The hotel's gourmet breakfast menu featured locally sourced ingredients and pastries made by a prize-winning chef.”
Usage
usually placed before the noun it describes
Antonyms
Real-World Examples
“Remove the pressure to cook a gourmet meal and design a tablescape.” “The result is the perfect pour-over coffee that could easily set you back $5 at a gourmet coffee shop.” Etymology
Borrowed from French gourmet, from Middle French gourmet, from Old French groumet (“wine broker, valet in charge of wines, servant”) from groume, grommes (“wine-taster, manservant”), apparently from Middle English grom, grome (“boy, valet, servant”), from Old English *grōm (“male child, boy, youth”), akin to Old English grōwan (“to grow”). Cognate of Spanish grumete and Catalan grumet. More at groom.
Etymology adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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