Crossword-Solution: GOURMAND
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Gourmand | n. | A greedy or ravenous eater; a glutton. See Gormand. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| GOURMAND | anagram | ROGUNDAM |
We have 26 clues for the answer “GOURMAND”
| Clue | Answers |
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| person who is very keen on food and drink | 1 answer |
| Second-helpings taker | 1 answer |
| One with an excessive fondness for fine food | 1 answer |
| Indiscriminate eater | 1 answer |
| His chief pleasure is eating. | 1 answer |
| Devotee of eating and drinking to excess | 1 answer |
| A person who is knowledgeable about good food | 1 answer |
| greedy feeder | 2 answers |
| Food fancier | 2 answers |
| Food lover | 3 answers |
| foody | 8 answers |
| PERSON with enthusiastic interest in consumption/preparation of good food | 9 answers |
| PERSON with interest in consumption/preparation of good food | 9 answers |
| ONE with an enthusiastic interest in consumption/preparation of good food | 9 answers |
| Foodie | 9 answers |
| Gastronome | 11 answers |
| Eater | 12 answers |
| Hedonist | 14 answers |
| Gourmet | 16 answers |
| Epicure | 16 answers |
| BON vivant | 19 answers |
| Chef? | 24 answers |
| Glutton | 35 answers |
| Connoisseur | 35 answers |
| greedy person | 55 answers |
| epicurean | 58 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEEAR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with GOURMAND (5)
The dishes which they place before each guest are so numerous that even a gourmand must leave some untouched.
The mind of man is not so “infinite,” in the vulgar sense of that word, as people fancy; and however greedy the appetite for wonder may be, while it remains unsatisfied in everyday European life, it is as easily satiated as any other appetite, and then leaves the senses of its possessor as dull as those of a city gourmand after a lord mayor's feast.
One thing only was good, the morning cup of coffee with cream, with which the most accomplished gourmand could have found no fault: since my departure from Iceland I have not found such coffee.
The great critic was something of a gourmand, and Felicite pampered the vice, knowing how indispensable a woman makes herself by such compliance.
The only thing that caused her emotion was the energy and vitality of her two children, and even then that emotion was but a mild surprise when she recollected how tremendous a worker and boisterous a gourmand of life was her late husband, on the anniversary of whose death she always sat all day without reading any novels at all, but devoted what was left of her mind to the contemplation of nothing at all.
Quotes with GOURMAND (3)
Cannibals? Who is not a cannibal? I tell you it will be more tolerable for the Fejee that salted down a lean missionary in his cellar against a coming famine; it will be more tolerable for that provident Fejee, I say, in the day of judgement, than for thee, civilized and enlightened gourmand, who nailest geese to the ground and feastest on their bloated livers in thy pate de fois gras.
Basically, if the author is totally un-educated, then the text won't bring out his best. Normal, educated people always understand that. But here's the thing — when the author is very highly-educated, the result is the same: the text turns out sub-par. Like if Charybdis was an uneducated cannibal, and Scylla was a sophisticated gourmand. Real literature snakes between the two. Like Hera's hair.
It is, admittedly, a base foodstuff, but lobster, well prepared, can nevertheless be made to satisfy the distinguished gourmand.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, Newsday, NYT, WSJ.
Used 8 times in crossword archives (1953–2015).