bon vivant

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• US: /ˌbɑn vɪvˈɑnt/
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• US: /ˌbɑn viˈvɑnt/
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• US: /ˌbɔ̃ viˈvɑ̃/
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• UK: /ˌbɒ̃ viːˈvɒ̃/
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• UK: /ˌbɔ̃ viˈvɑ̃/
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Borrowed from French bon vivant (literally “one who lives well, good ‘liver’ (living person)”), from bon (“good”) + vivant (“person who is living”), agent noun of vivre (“to live”).

49 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Catalan: sibarita — person who enjoys the good things in life, especially good food and drink
• Catalan: vividor — person who enjoys the good things in life, especially good food and drink
• Catalan: vividora — person who enjoys the good things in life, especially good food and drink
• Catalan: panxacontent — person who enjoys the good things in life, especially good food and drink
• Catalan: panxacontenta — person who enjoys the good things in life, especially good food and drink
• Czech: požitkář — person who enjoys the good things in life, especially good food and drink
• Czech: bonviván — person who enjoys the good things in life, especially good food and drink
• Danish: levemand — person who enjoys the good things in life, especially good food and drink
• Danish: livsnyder — person who enjoys the good things in life, especially good food and drink
• Dutch: levensgenieter — person who enjoys the good things in life, especially good food and drink
• Dutch: bon-vivant — person who enjoys the good things in life, especially good food and drink
• Dutch: pallieter — person who enjoys the good things in life, especially good food and drink
• Dutch: pretmaker — person who enjoys the good things in life, especially good food and drink
• Esperanto: bonvivanto — person who enjoys the good things in life, especially good food and drink
• Estonian: elunautija — person who enjoys the good things in life, especially good food and drink
• Finnish: elämännautiskelija — person who enjoys the good things in life, especially good food and drink
• Finnish: elostelija — person who enjoys the good things in life, especially good food and drink
• French: bon vivant — person who enjoys the good things in life, especially good food and drink
• French: bonne vivante — person who enjoys the good things in life, especially good food and drink
• German: Bonvivant — person who enjoys the good things in life, especially good food and drink
• German: Lebemann — person who enjoys the good things in life, especially good food and drink
• German: Genussmensch — person who enjoys the good things in life, especially good food and drink
• Greek: φιλήδονος (filídonos) — person who enjoys the good things in life, especially good food and drink
• Greek: καλοζωιστής (kalozoïstís) — person who enjoys the good things in life, especially good food and drink
• Greek: μπον βιβέρ (bon vivér) — person who enjoys the good things in life, especially good food and drink
• Hungarian: bonviván — person who enjoys the good things in life, especially good food and drink
• Ido: bon-vivero — person who enjoys the good things in life, especially good food and drink
• Italian: gaudente — person who enjoys the good things in life, especially good food and drink
• Italian: viveur — person who enjoys the good things in life, especially good food and drink
• Italian: viveuse — person who enjoys the good things in life, especially good food and drink
• Kannada: ಭೋಜನಪ್ರಿಯ (bhōjanapriya) — person who enjoys the good things in life, especially good food and drink
• Kannada: ಸುಭೋಜ್ಯಪ್ರಿಯ (subhōjyapriya) — person who enjoys the good things in life, especially good food and drink
• Kannada: ಭೋಜನ ರಸಿಕ (bhōjana rasika) — person who enjoys the good things in life, especially good food and drink
• Kannada: ಪಾಕಪ್ರಿಯ (pākapriya) — person who enjoys the good things in life, especially good food and drink
• Northern Kurdish: xoşxwara — person who enjoys the good things in life, especially good food and drink
• Macedonian: мераклија (meraklija) — person who enjoys the good things in life, especially good food and drink
• Norwegian Bokmål: livsnyter — person who enjoys the good things in life, especially good food and drink
• Norwegian Bokmål: levemann — person who enjoys the good things in life, especially good food and drink
• Polish: bon vivant — person who enjoys the good things in life, especially good food and drink
• Portuguese: boêmio — person who enjoys the good things in life, especially good food and drink
• Russian: жуи́р (žuír) — person who enjoys the good things in life, especially good food and drink
• Russian: бонвива́н (bonviván) — person who enjoys the good things in life, especially good food and drink
• Spanish: vividor — person who enjoys the good things in life, especially good food and drink
• Spanish: vividora — person who enjoys the good things in life, especially good food and drink
• Swedish: goddagsplit — person who enjoys the good things in life, especially good food and drink
• Swedish: livsnjutare — person who enjoys the good things in life, especially good food and drink
• Swedish: vivör — person who enjoys the good things in life, especially good food and drink
• Swedish: lebeman — person who enjoys the good things in life, especially good food and drink
• Swedish: festprisse — person who enjoys the good things in life, especially good food and drink