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gastronomy

Syllables: gas·tro·no·myUK/ɡæˈstɹɒnəmi/

gastronomy noun: the art of preparing and eating good food.

gastronomy: the art of preparing and eating good food
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Noun

gastronomy (usually uncountable, plural gastronomies)

  1. (usually) The art of preparing and eating good food.
  2. (usually) The restaurant industry.
    • This does not mean, however, that activity in the restaurant business is predictable, economically safe and stable. According to some authors (Longart 2015, p. 1) as the gastronomy sector is one of the easiest to enter there is a constant threat of new competition.2020 January 20, Andrzej Kowalczyk, Marta Derek, Gastronomy and Urban Space: Changes and Challenges in Geographical Perspective, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 94
    • It is against this background that the city of Vienna, in collaboration with the Vienna Economic Chamber, has decided to issue vouchers, to be spent in the Viennese gastronomy.2020 May 14, “City of Vienna issues gastronomy vouchers for every household”, in EU Policy Watch
  3. (usually) The study of the relationship between food and culture.
  4. (usually) The cooking of a particular area; cuisine.
    • The gastronomy of Mexico is world-famous.

gastronomy meaning in Bengali, Kannada, Arabic and Vietnamese

gastronomy in Bengali

পাকবিদ্যা, উত্তম আহারের শিল্প, বিজ্ঞান

gastronomy in Kannada

ಭೋಜನ ಕಲೆ, ಭೋಜನ ಶಾಸ್ತ್ರ, ಉಣ್ಣುವ ಕಲೆ, ಪಾಕಶಾಸ್ತ್ರ, ಅಡುಗೆಯ ಕಲೆ, ಅಡುಗೆಯ ರುಚಿಯನ್ನರಿತ ಕಲೆ

gastronomy in Arabic

study of the relationship between food and culture
فَنّ اَلْأَكْل fann al-ʔakl

gastronomy in Vietnamese

study of the relationship between food and culture
ẩm thực, liệu lí học

Forms of gastronomy

pluralgastronomies

Origin of gastronomy

From French gastronomie, from Ancient Greek γαστρονομία (gastronomía), from γαστήρ (gastḗr, “stomach”) + νόμος (nómos, “knowledge, law”); by surface analysis, gastro- (“cooking”) + -nomy (“a system of rules or laws about a particular field”).

Words formed from gastronomy

Words that rhyme with gastronomy

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Questions about gastronomy

What does gastronomy mean?
Gastronomy means the art of preparing and eating good food.
What is gastronomy in Bengali?
Gastronomy in Bengali is পাকবিদ্যা, উত্তম আহারের শিল্প, বিজ্ঞান. See Gastronomy meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is gastronomy?
Gastronomy is a noun.
How do you pronounce gastronomy?
Gastronomy is pronounced /ɡæˈstɹɒnəmi/ (UK).
What is the plural of gastronomy?
The plural of gastronomy is gastronomies.

Words near gastronomy in the dictionary

  1. gastronomically
  2. gastronomics
  3. gastronomies
  4. gastronomist
  5. gastronomists
  6. gastronomy
  7. gastronyssid
  8. gastronyssids
  9. gastrooesophageal
  10. gastroomental
  11. gastropancreatic

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: gastronomy (page history and authors); Gastronomy (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); gastronomy (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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