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gastronaut

gastronaut noun: a person with a keen appreciation for food.

Noun

gastronaut (plural gastronauts)

  1. A person with a keen appreciation for food.
    • For confirmation, just think of the millions of people who, after watching Keith, were inspired to cook, eat, drink; to become a gastronaut and savour — truly relish — every morsel, every drop, every bloody bit of it!2009, James Steen, "Epilogue", in Stirred But Not Shaken (by Keith Floyd), Pan Books (2010), page 353
  2. A person whose whole focus is narrowly directed to the enjoyment of fine food.

Synonyms of gastronaut

Forms of gastronaut

pluralgastronauts

Origin of gastronaut

From gastro- + -naut, by analogy with astronaut.

Questions about gastronaut

What does gastronaut mean?
Gastronaut means a person with a keen appreciation for food.
What part of speech is gastronaut?
Gastronaut is a noun.
What is the plural of gastronaut?
The plural of gastronaut is gastronauts.

Words near gastronaut in the dictionary

  1. gastromesenteric
  2. gastromucoprotective
  3. gastromyzontid
  4. gastromyzontids
  5. gastronationalism
  6. gastronaut
  7. gastronauts
  8. gastronome
  9. gastronomer
  10. gastronomers
  11. gastronomes

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