sommelier
Syllables: som·mel·i·erUK/ˌsɒmˈmɛli.ə/US/ˌsɔməlˈjeɪ/
sommelier noun: the member of staff at a restaurant who keeps the wine cellar and advises the guests on a choice of wines; a wine steward / stewardess, a wine waiter / waitress / server.
Noun
sommelier (plural sommeliers)
- The member of staff at a restaurant who keeps the wine cellar and advises the guests on a choice of wines; a wine steward / stewardess, a wine waiter / waitress / server.
- The sommelier recommended the perfect wine, opened the bottle with panache, and served it into glasses.
- A Sommelier or wine steward organizes a restaurant's entire wine program, from tasting to pairing of wines with foods the chef might prepare according to seasonal meat, seafood, and produce availability, to ordering and keeping inventory, staying on top of local, domestic, and foreign releases, and...2010, Kathleen Thompson Hill, “Sommelier”, in Career Opportunities in the Food and Beverage Industry, New York, N.Y.: Ferguson, Infobase Publishing, →ISBN, page 44, column 1
- Synonyms:
- somm, wine server, wine steward, wine stewardess, wine waiter, wine waitress
Verb
sommelier (third-person singular simple present sommeliers, present participle sommeliering, simple past and past participle sommeliered)
- To act as a sommelier.
- The final nerve-wracking task involved “sommeliering” throughout a gourmet lunch for judges and wine writers – and answering the tricky questions which were inevitably thrown their way.1993, Hotel & Catering Review, volume 23, page 6
sommelier meaning in Tamil and Indonesian
sommelier in Tamil
- மது பரிமாறுபவர்
sommelier in Indonesian
- wine steward / stewardess, wine waiter / waitress
- somelier
Synonyms of sommelier
Forms of sommelier
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | sommeliers |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | sommeliers |
| present participle | sommeliering |
| past participle | sommeliered |
| past | sommeliered |
Origin of sommelier
Borrowed from French sommelier (“originally, a person in charge of the beasts of burden carrying wine”), from somme (“pack”) + -ier (suffix forming the names of jobs). somme is from Vulgar Latin *sauma, from Latin sagma (“packsaddle”).
Words that rhyme with sommelier
Questions about sommelier
- What does sommelier mean?
- Sommelier means the member of staff at a restaurant who keeps the wine cellar and advises the guests on a choice of wines; a wine steward / stewardess, a wine waiter / waitress / server.
- What is sommelier in Tamil?
- Sommelier in Tamil is மது பரிமாறுபவர். See Sommelier meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is sommelier?
- Sommelier can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce sommelier?
- Sommelier is pronounced /ˌsɒmˈmɛli.ə/ (UK).
- What is the plural of sommelier?
- The plural of sommelier is sommeliers.
Words near sommelier in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: sommelier (page history and authors); sommelier (Tamil 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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