This week’s theme
Illustrated words

This week’s words
bibliomania
chatoyant
gastronome
quaggy
robustious

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(GAS-truh-nohm)

MEANING:

noun: A connoisseur of good food.

ETYMOLOGY:

From French gastronome, back-formation from gastronomie, from Greek gastronomia, from gastro- (stomach) + nomos (law). from Earliest documented use: 1823.

USAGE:

“‘Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are,’ declared Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, an 18th-century French gastronome.”
Filling Up; The Economist (London, UK); Aug 30, 2014.

See more usage examples of gastronome in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.

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