noun. A person with refined taste, especially in food and wine.

noun. A person devoted to sensuous pleasure and luxurious living.

To live like an epicure; epicurize.

noun. [cap. or lowercase] A follower of Epicurus; an Epicurean: seldom, if ever, used without odium.

noun. Popularly (owing to a misrepresentation of the ethical part of the doctrines of Epicurus), one given up to sensual enjoyment, and especially to the pleasures of eating and drinking; a gormand; a person of luxurious tastes and habits.

noun. Synonyms Epicure, Gourmet, and Gormand agree in representing one who cares a great deal for the pleasures of the table. The epicure selects with a fastidious taste, but is luxurious in the supply of that which he likes. The gourmet is a connoisseur in food and drink, and a dainty feeder. The gormand differs from a glutton only in having a more discriminating taste.

noun. A follower of Epicurus; an Epicurean.

noun. One devoted to dainty or luxurious sensual enjoyments, esp. to the luxuries of the table.

noun. A person who is devoted to sensual pleasures or sensuous living.

noun. A person with highly refined tastes in food, wine, music et cetera.

noun. a person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment (especially good food and drink)

"No; the epicure is the lady's humble servant, the Prince d'Athis, a man of cultivated palate and fastidious appetite, spoilt by club cooking and not to be satisfied by silver plate or the sight of fine liveries and irreproachable white calves."

sensualist  

Sybarite  adventuress  connoisseur  gastronome  glutton  

Brillat-Savarin  Cyrenaic  Heliogabalus  Lucullus  Sardanapalus