Definitions for gourmand

gourmand gour·mand

Spelling: [goo r-mahnd, goo r-muh
IPA: /gʊərˈmɑnd, ˈgʊər mənd/

Gourmand is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 344 anagrams from letters in gourmand (adgmnoru).

Definitions for gourmand

noun

  1. a person who is fond of good eating, often indiscriminatingly and to excess.
  2. a gourmet; epicure.

Origin of gourmand

1400-50; late Middle English gourmaunt Old French gormant a glutton

Examples for gourmand

Nick found no difficulty in eating this—it was a dish fit for any gourmand.

I love the exquisite and the excellent; I am a gourmand in all things.

One is a gourmand as one is an artist, as one is learned, as one is a poet.

They gleefully bathe in fresh entrails; they rip the limbs off human bodies like a gourmand digging into a fresh lobster.

Beltrán Leyva, a gourmand, was savoring his tamale with its filling of roasted corn.

There is an advantage in belonging to this faith, as I was led to understand by a gourmand.

I was recalling a remark you made the first evening I met you,that you were a gourmand.

And there, believe me, is one of the charms of travel, even to the man who is not a gourmand.

You may safely become a gourmand with respect to these wild flavors.

One meal prepared for me by artist, writer, and gourmand Claude Tayag in the city of Angeles ranks with any I have ever eaten.

Word Value for gourmand
Scrable

12

Words with friends

16

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