gourmet
/ˈɡʊəmeɪ/US/ɡʊɹˈmeɪ/
gourmet adjective: fine; of superior quality.
Adjective
gourmet (not comparable)
- Fine; of superior quality.
- We need to go to the gourmet grocery store to get the exotic ingredients for this recipe.
- The restaurant offered gourmet coffee and cigars after the meal.
Noun
gourmet (plural gourmets)
- A connoisseur in eating and drinking; someone who takes their food seriously.
- The vulvae of the sow were popular as a gourmet's dish. Credited with erotic effects.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 247
gourmet meaning in Urdu, Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada
gourmet in Urdu
- گورمیٹ
gourmet in Bengali
- ভোজনবিলাসী
gourmet in Malayalam
- epicure, gastronome, epicurean
- ഭോജനരസികൻ, ഭോജനപ്രിയൻ, രുചിവിദഗ്ദ്ധൻ, ആഹാരപ്രിയൻ, ഭോജനകലാവിദഗ്ദ്ധൻ, സുഖലോലുപൻ
gourmet in Kannada
- ತಿನ್ನಾಳಿ, ತಿನ್ನುಗ, ತಿನ್ನರಿಗ, ತಿನಿಸರಿಗ, ಭೋಜನ ರಸಿಕ, ತಿನಿಸು ಪರಿಣತ
More languagesFewer languages
- gourmet in Arabic
- ذَوَّاق ḏawwāq
- gourmet in Thai
- นักกิน nák-gin
Examples of gourmet in a sentence
- The gourmet 'treat' glistened repellently. I wouldn't touch it with a ten-foot chopstick.
- A talented chef can elevate everyday ingredients into gourmet delights.
- Beautiful fresh eggs, boiled gently to perfection, are a true gourmet experience.
Synonyms of gourmet
Forms of gourmet
| plural | gourmets |
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Origin of gourmet
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.
Words formed from gourmet
- gourmania
- gourmetism
- gourmetlike
- gourmet pizza
- nongourmet
Words that rhyme with gourmet
Questions about gourmet
- What does gourmet mean?
- Gourmet means fine; of superior quality.
- What is gourmet in Urdu?
- Gourmet in Urdu is گورمیٹ. See Gourmet meaning in Urdu.
- What part of speech is gourmet?
- Gourmet can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce gourmet?
- Gourmet is pronounced /ɡʊɹˈmeɪ/ (US).
Words near gourmet in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: gourmet (page history and authors); gourmet (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); Gourmet (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); gourmet (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); gourmet (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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