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Gourmands by Krzysztof Lubieniecki, Warsaw National Museum. A gourmand is a person who takes great pleasure and interest in consuming particularly good food and drink. [1] Gourmand originally referred to a person who was "a glutton for food and drink", [2] a person who eats and drinks excessively. [3]
An antonym is one of a pair of words with opposite meanings. Each word in the pair is the antithesis of the other. A word may have more than one antonym. There are three categories of antonyms identified by the nature of the relationship between the opposed meanings.
A gourmand is a lover of good food and drink. Gourmand may also refer to: Gourmand (fragrance), a genre of modern perfume; Gourmand syndrome, a rare medical condition;
The Flavour Thesaurus has also been reviewed by The Sunday Times, [3] Foodtripper, [4] Good, [5] Library Journal, [6] Booklist, [7] Michigan Quarterly Review, [8] and The Globe and Mail. [9] In addition to the UK and US editions, The Flavour Thesaurus has been translated into fourteen languages, including French, Russian and Japanese.
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A gourmet is someone who appreciates fine food. A gourmand does not. All a gourmand cares about is quantity. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.175.240.151 08:57, 24 March 2008 (UTC) Well, not quite, but the two terms are clearly different. Paul B 14:51, 2 September 2008 (UTC) Well Gourmand has and is equated to gluttony.
Listing of antonyms, such as "good and evil", "great and small", etc., does not create oxymorons, as it is not implied that any given object has the two opposing properties simultaneously. In some languages, it is not necessary to place a conjunction like and between the two antonyms; such compounds (not necessarily of antonyms) are known as ...
"Good" the opposite of evil, for the distinction between positive and negative entities, see Good and evil; Goods, materials that satisfy human wants and provide utility; Capital good is a durable good that is used in the production of goods or services.