Question

epicure He reads trashy novels and watches junk on TV, but he has an epicure's love of fine cheeses and wines. ˈɛpɪˌkjʊr

Accepted Answer

A person with cultivated taste, especially for food and drink; a gourmet. The Greek philosopher Epicurus was known for his original thinking about the nature of matter, but he's best remembered for his ideas about pleasure as the chief aim of life. By pleasure Epicurus chiefly meant the absence of pain and anxiety. However, over the years Epicureanism has come to mean a delight in fine sensual pleasures, and today an epicure is someone with refined taste, especially in food and wine. To display your own refined taste in language, you might try using epicure and epicurean in place of the overused gourmet

word	epicure
definition	A person with cultivated taste, especially for food and drink; a gourmet.
eg_sentence	He reads trashy novels and watches junk on TV, but he has an epicure's love of fine cheeses and wines.
explanation	The Greek philosopher Epicurus was known for his original thinking about the nature of matter, but he's best remembered for his ideas about pleasure as the chief aim of life. By pleasure Epicurus chiefly meant the absence of pain and anxiety. However, over the years Epicureanism has come to mean a delight in fine sensual pleasures, and today an epicure is someone with refined taste, especially in food and wine. To display your own refined taste in language, you might try using epicure and epicurean in place of the overused gourmet
IPA	ˈɛpɪˌkjʊr

Epicure Taste Food Fine Epicurus Pleasure Refined Person