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Found 4 hits - Term: epicure, Database: *, Strategy: exact
[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
epicure \ep"icure\, n. l. epicurus, gr. ?, a famous greek
   philosopher, who has been regarded, but erroneously, as
   teaching a doctrine of refined voluptuousness.
   1. a follower of epicurus; an epicurean. obs. --bacon.
      1913 webster

   2. one devoted to dainty or luxurious sensual enjoyments,
      esp. to the luxuries of the table.

   syn: voluptuary; sensualist.
        1913 webster

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
epicure
     n : a person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment especially
         good food and drink syn: gourmet, gastronome, bon
         vivant, epicurean, foodie
see also:
gourmet gastronome bon vivant epicurean foodie 
[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
72 moby thesaurus words for "epicure":
   brillat-savarin, cyrenaic, heliogabalus, lucullus, sardanapalus,
   aesthete, amateur, arbiter, arbiter elegantiarum, arbiter of taste,
   authority, board-and-roomer, boarder, bon vivant, cannibal,
   carnivore, carpet knight, cognoscente, collector, connaisseur,
   connoisseur, connoisseur of food, consumer, critic, dilettante,
   diner, diner-out, eater, eater-out, epicurean, expert, feeder,
   flesh-eater, fruitarian, gastronome, gastronomer, gastronomist,
   glutton, good judge, gourmand, gourmet, grain-eater, graminivore,
   granivore, hedonist, herbivore, high liver, hungry mouth, judge,
   lactovegetarian, luncher, man-eater, maven, meat-eater, mouth,
   omnivore, omophagist, pantophagist, phytophage, picnicker,
   plant-eater, pleasure-seeker, predacean, refined palate,
   sensualist, sensuist, swine, sybarite, trencherman, vegetarian,
   virtuoso, voluptuary




[4] : THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993)
epicure, n.  an opponent of epicurus, an abstemious philosopher who,
holding that pleasure should be the chief aim of man, wasted no time
in gratification from the senses.




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