gluttony
/ˈɡlʌ.tən.i/
gluttony noun: the vice of eating to excess.
Noun
gluttony (countable and uncountable, plural gluttonies)
- The vice of eating to excess.
- The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite.[…]Can those harmless but refined fellow-diners be the selfish cads whose gluttony and personal appearance so raised your contemptuous wrath on your arrival?1921, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC
gluttony meaning in Tamil, Marathi, Bengali and Malayalam
gluttony in Tamil
- யானைத் தீ, ஊப்பை, பேருண்டி
gluttony in Marathi
- gluttony
- हावरटपणा hāvraṭapṇā
gluttony in Bengali
- পেটুকবৃত্তি, অতিভোজন, ভোজনবিলাস, ঔদরিকতা
gluttony in Malayalam
- അതിഭക്ഷണം, ബഹുഭക്ഷണം, തീറ്റിഭ്രാന്ത്, അമിതഭക്ഷണം
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- gluttony in Kannada
- ತಿಂಡಿಪೋತತನ, ಹೊಟ್ಟೆಬಾಕತನ, ತಿಂಡಿಪೋತನಾದ, ಹೊಟ್ಟೆಬಾಕನಾದ
- gluttony in Tagalog
- katakawan
- gluttony in Arabic
- نَهَم naham, شَرَه šarah, شَرَاهَة šarāha, بِطْنَة biṭna
- gluttony in Persian
- پرخوری porxori, ژرد žard
- gluttony in Thai
- ตะกละ dtà-glà
Antonyms of gluttony
Forms of gluttony
| plural | gluttonies |
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Origin of gluttony
From Old French glutonie, from gloton + -ie, from Latin glutio, equivalent to glutton + -y.
Questions about gluttony
- What does gluttony mean?
- Gluttony means the vice of eating to excess.
- What is gluttony in Tamil?
- Gluttony in Tamil is யானைத் தீ, ஊப்பை, பேருண்டி. See Gluttony meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is gluttony?
- Gluttony is a noun.
- How do you pronounce gluttony?
- Gluttony is pronounced /ˈɡlʌ.tən.i/.
- What is the plural of gluttony?
- The plural of gluttony is gluttonies.
Words near gluttony in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: gluttony (page history and authors); gluttony (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); हावरटपणा (Marathi) (page history and authors); gluttony (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); gluttony (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); gluttony (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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