Epicure

Definition: Epicure

Epicure

Noun

1. A person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment (especially good food and drink).

Date "epicure" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Etymology: Epicure \Ep"i*cure\, noun. [Latin expression Epicurus, Greek, famous Greek philosopher, who has been regarded, but erroneously, as teaching doctrine of refined voluptuousness.]. (Websters 1913)

Specialty Definitions: Epicure

Domain	Definitions
Satire	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. Source: Devil's Dictionary.
Dream Interpretation	To dream of sitting at the table with an epicure, denotes that you will enjoy some fine distinction, but you will be surrounded by people of selfish principles. To dream that you an epicure yourself, you will cultivate your mind, body and taste to the highest polish. For a woman to dream of trying to satisfy an epicure, signifies that she will have a distinguished husband, but to her he will be a tyrant. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Epicure

Synonyms: bon vivant (n), epicurean (n), gastronome (n), gourmet (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Epicure

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Fastidiousness	Epicure, gourmet.
Gluttony	Epicure, bon vivant, gourmand; glutton, cormorant, hog, belly god, Apicius, gastronome; gourmet; a.
Sensualist	Noun: Sybarite, voluptuary, Sardanaphalus, man of pleasure, carpet knight; epicure, epicurean, gourmet, gourmand; pig, hog; votary of Epicurus, swine of Epicurus; sensualist; Heliogabalus; free liver, hard liver; libertine; hedonist; tragalist.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Epicure

English words defined with "epicure": Apician ♦ Belly-god ♦ epicurism, Epicurize ♦ Gastronomer. (references)

Specialty definitions using "epicure": Barnet ♦ Dum Vivimus, Vivamus ♦ Epicure ♦ Farinata ♦ Gourmand's Prayer ♦ Mammon's Cave ♦ Philoxenos of Leucadia. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Epicure

Domain	Title
Books	Blue Trout and Black Truffles: The Peregrinations of an Epicure (reference) Epicure : recipes and more for the curious cook (reference) Houston Epicure Menu Guide (reference) The New Vegetarian Epicure, Plain and Fancy: Menus for Family & Friends. (reference) The Vegan Epicure (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Epicure

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Gimbels, business in Valley Stream, Long Island. Epicure.Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Epicure

"Epicure" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 69.23% of the time. "Epicure" is used about 13 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (proper)	69.23%	9	117,287
Noun (singular)	23.08%	3	202,518
Lexical Verb (base form)	7.69%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	13	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Epicure

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
epicure	118
epicure selection	14
epicure recipe	9
epicure victorian	8
epicure recepies	4
dacor epicure	4
epicure speaker	4
epicure market	4
epicure italian	3
epicure festival	3
grande epicure	3
cafe epicure	2
epicure magazine	2
grand epicure	2
against army epicure	2
amstaffs epicure	2
catering epicure	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Epicure

Language		Translations for "epicure"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		Epikurean (epicurean). (various references)

Arabic		‏محب للأكل بعبادة, ‏ذو ذوق مرهف, ‏الذواق (taster), ‏الأبيقوري (epicurean). (various references)

Bulgarian		Епикуреец. (various references)

Czech		Požitkář (sybarite). (various references)

French		Gourmet, Gastronome. (various references)

German		Genießer (connoisseur, epicures, gourmet, pleasure-lover, wallower, wallowers). (various references)

Greek		Επικούρειοσ, ίαλοφαγάσ. (various references)

Hebrew		ְ� ין ָעם. (various references)

Hungarian		Epikureus. (various references)

Indonesian		gemar makan dan minum. (various references)

Italian		Conoscitore (appreciator, classicist, connoisseur). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		食�"楽 (gourmand), 食い�"楽 (gourmand), 美食家 (gourmet). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		くいどうらく (gourmand), しょくどうらく (gourmand), びしょくか (gourmet). (various references)

Pig Latin		epicureay

Portuguese		Epicentro (epicenter, epicentre, epicentrum). (various references)

Romanian		Epicurian (epicurean, sensualist, voluptuary). (various references)

Russian		Эпикуреец. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		epikur, gurman (epicurean, gourmand). (various references)

Spanish		Epicuro, Sibarita (sybarite), Pensamiento Epicureano. (various references)

Swedish		Epikure (epicurean), Läckergom, Finsmakare (gourmet). (various references)

Thai		ผู้มีรสนิยมสูงในการกิน. (various references)

Turkish		Keyfine Düşkün Kimse, Damak Zevkine Sahip Kimse. (various references)

Ukranian		Епікуре�"ць, Любитель Насолод. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Epicure

Language	Period	Translations
Greek	700 BCE-300 CE	Epicouros. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Epicure

Derivations
	Words beginning with "epicure": epicurean, epicureanism, epicureanisms, epicureans, epicures. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Epicure" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: empictured, epicur, epicural, epiqure, expliquer, penicure, pericure. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Epicure"

Words rhyming with "epicure" (pronounced 'Ep"i*cure'): Assecure, Clare-obscure, Countersecure, Discure, insecure, Unsecure. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Epicure

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-e-e-i-p-r-u"
	-1 letter: piecer, pierce, recipe.
	-2 letters: creep, crepe, cripe, curie, piece, price, puree, rupee, ureic.
	-3 letters: cepe, cere, cire, cure, ecru, epic, peer, peri, pice, pier, pree, puce, pure, puri, rice, ripe, uric.
	-4 letters: cee, cep, cue, cup, cur, ecu, ere, ice, ire, pec, pee, per, pic, pie, piu, pur, rec, ree, rei, rep, rip, rue.
	Words containing the letters "c-e-e-i-p-r-u"
	+1 letter: epicures, pedicure, precieux.
	+2 letters: epicurean, pedicured, pedicures, precieuse, prejudice, prurience, puckerier.
	+3 letters: epicureans, imprudence, percussive, picaresque, preciouses, preclusive, prejudiced, prejudices, pruriences, puckeriest, putrescine, reoccupied, reoccupies, underprice.
	+4 letters: computerise, computerize, decrepitude, imprudences, intercouple, lectureship, neuroleptic, perithecium, persecuting, persecution, persecutive, picaresques, picturesque, preoccupied, preoccupies, pruriencies, putrescible, putrescines, reduplicate, superceding, supercities, supercoiled, superficies, superinduce, superinfect, superscribe, supremacies, therapeutic, underpriced, underprices, unperceived, unreceptive.
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