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Meanings of epicurean in English

Catalan
gourmet
Spanish
epicúreo

A person who enjoys choosing, eating and drinking high quality food and wines and who knows a lot about them.

gourmet

Displaying luxury and furnishing gratification to the senses.

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Devoted to pleasure.

Philosophy.

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Examples for "hedonistic"
Examples for "hedonistic"
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The Sonnets on the Days are conceived in a like hedonistic spirit.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete / Series I, I...
2
The Culture is a resolutely hedonistic society, with little apparent governmental structure.
The Irish Times
3
Others just seemed to be motivated by a hedonistic lifestyle, recalls Murphy.
The Guardian
4
But the hard-working nocturnal poet became the lazy decadent hedonistic rock star.
Independent.ie
5
We were hedonistic, but that wasn't to say that we were idiots.
Reuters
1
But the Pleasant Life is only one rung on the hedonic ladder.
A whole new mind: why right-brainers will rule the future
2
The biological glass ceiling Evolutionary biologists offer a complementary explanation for the hedonic treadmill.
The Guardian
3
Changes in hedonic odor ratings indicate a potential embryo-protective mechanism.
Pubmed
4
Enjoy each moment, including the hedonic pleasures that eating evokes.
The South African
5
Endogenous opioids are involved in the hedonic aspects of eating.
Pubmed
Usage of epicurean in English
1
Those words used to conjure up images of wealth and epicurean tastes.
The Irish Times
2
Flying with South African Airways promises to be a truly epicurean experience.
The South African
3
We'd better skip that chapter and come straight to the epicurean sage.
Eyeless in Gaza
4
He gained the distinction of having discovered the epicurean value of sand-dabs.
The Gray Dawn
5
There is no perfectly epicurean corner; there is no perfectly irresponsible place.
Heretics
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I'm more of a Maoist epicurean - I yearn for constant revolution.
The Guardian
7
His epicurean uncle had no profound esteem for the kind of innocence.
Diana of the Crossways — Volume 3
8
He had the Southerner's epicurean appreciation of the fine art of feasting.
The Gay Cockade
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It smacked of crudeness, and he had an epicurean distaste for crudeness.
The Purple Heights
10
Each pastry with its own evocative name, the epitome of epicurean deliciousness.
The Guardian
11
He would make his life there, as a sort of epicurean hermit.
England, My England
12
She even had praise for the epicurean delights of the hospital's kitchen.
The Irish Times
13
And then they would have luncheon, specially devised for Bessie's epicurean taste.
Together
14
Except the gout, this savage old epicurean never knew a day's sickness.
In a glass darkly
15
You are an anarchist, you are, and an epicurean into the bargain!
The Last Shot
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Terrence, there-­TerrenceMcFane-­he'san epicurean anarchist, if you know what that means.
The Little Lady of the Big House
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