Voluptuary

Definitions: Voluptuary

Voluptuary

Adjective

1. Furnishing gratification of the senses; "an epicurean banquet"; "enjoyed a luxurious suite with a crystal chandelier and thick oriental rugs"; "Lucullus spent the remainder of his days in voluptuous magnificence"; "a chinchilla robe of sybaritic lavishness".

Noun

1. A person addicted to luxury and pleasures of the senses.

Date "voluptuary" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1792. (references)

Synonyms: Voluptuary

Synonyms: epicurean (adj), luxurious (adj), sybaritic (adj), voluptuous (adj), sybarite (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Libertine	Noun: libertine; voluptuary; a; rake, debauchee, loose fish, rip, rakehell, fast man; intrigant, gallant, seducer, fornicator, lecher, satyr, goat, whoremonger, paillard, adulterer, gay deceiver, Lothario, Don Juan, Bluebeard; chartered libertine.
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.

Crosswords: Voluptuary

English words defined with "voluptuary": Softling ♦ Voluptuaries. (references)

Etymologies containing "voluptuary": Softling. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Memoirs of a Voluptuary (reference) (more book examples)
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Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	[A Voluptuary under the horrors of Digestion] / James Gillray.Credit: National Library of Medicine.
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"Voluptuary" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "Voluptuary" is used about 4 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 (singular)	75%	3	202,518
Adjective (general or positive)	25%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	4	N/A

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.

Language		Translations for "voluptuary"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		qejfli (cognoscente, liver, playful, voluptuous). (various references)

Arabic		‏الشهواني, ‏شهواني (amorous, carnal, erotic, instinctive, lascivious, lewd, libidinous, lickerish, lush, lustful, luxurious, passionate, randy, salacious, satyr, sensual, sensualist, sportive, sultry, voluptuous, wanton, warm). (various references)

Bulgarian		сластолюбец (fleshling), похотлив човек. (various references)

Czech		rozkošník (lotus eater). (various references)

Finnish		hekumoitsija (sensualist). (various references)

French		voluptueux (voluptuous). (various references)

German		Lüstling (debauchee, lecher, libertine, satyr). (various references)

Greek		φιλήδονοσ (lickerish, sensual, sensualist, sensualistic, voluptuous). (various references)

Hebrew		מתמכר לתע� ו�'ות. (various references)

Hungarian		kéjenc (goat, lecher, rake, rakehell, satyr, sensual, wanton). (various references)

Italian		sensuale (fleshly, sensual, sensuous), libertino (debauchee, dissipated, excessive, lecher, libertine, rake, rakish), gaudente (reveller). (various references)

Manx		soyllaragh (self-indulgent, sensual, voluptuous), fer soyllaragh (sensualist). (various references)

Pig Latin		oluptuaryvay

Portuguese		sibarita (sybarite), sensualista (sensualist). (various references)

Romanian		sibarit (lotus eater, sensualist, sybarite), epicurian (Epicure, epicurean, sensualist). (various references)

Russian		сластолюбец (man of pleasure, sensualist). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		sladostrasnik (libertine), pohotljivac (lecher, satyr). (various references)

Spanish		voluptuoso (voluptuous). (various references)

Swedish		vällusting (debauchee, libertine, roue), vällustig (lascivious, lecherous, libidinous, lustful, voluptuous). (various references)

Turkish		seks düşkünü kimse, şehvet düşkünü kimse (sensualist). (various references)

Ukranian		ласолюбний, ласолюб (satyr, sensualist). (various references)

Vietnamese		người thích khoái lạc, người ưa nhục dục. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Voluptuary" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: voluptary. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-l-o-p-r-t-u-u-v-y"
	-3 letters: outplay, outpray, ovulary, poultry, vapoury.
	-4 letters: layout, outlay, ovular, paltry, partly, patrol, payout, portal, portly, protyl, pyrola, raptly, torula, uvular, valour, vapory, vapour, vaulty, votary.
	-5 letters: aport, aptly, atopy, layup, loury, lovat, lyart, ovary, parol, party, parvo, patly, payor, platy, polar, poult, pouty, pruta, roupy, royal, tolar, truly, typal, ultra, uvula, valor, vapor.
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