noun
Meaning 1
gluttony
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
gourmandise
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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General-American: /ɡʊɹmənˈdiz/
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General-American: /ˈɡoɹ-/
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General-American: /ˈɡɔɹ-/
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Received-Pronunciation: /ɡʊəmənˈdiːz/
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈɡɔː-/
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General-American: /ˈɡʊɹməndaɪz/
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈɡʊəməndaɪz/
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verb
Meaning 2
To eat food in a gluttonous manner; to gorge; to make a pig of oneself.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: guttle
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
Etymology tree French gourmand French -ise French gourmandisebor. English gourmandise Borrowed from French gourmandise.
From gourmand + -ise.
Across languages
Translations
16 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Akan: didi boro so — to eat food in a gluttonous manner
- Bulgarian: ям лакомо (jam lakomo) — to eat food in a gluttonous manner
- Bulgarian: лапам (lapam) — to eat food in a gluttonous manner
- Bulgarian: тъпча се (tǎpča se) — to eat food in a gluttonous manner
- Finnish: ahmia — to eat food in a gluttonous manner
- Finnish: mässäillä — to eat food in a gluttonous manner
- French: se goinfrer — to eat food in a gluttonous manner
- French: s'empiffrer — to eat food in a gluttonous manner
- German: sich voll fressen — to eat food in a gluttonous manner
- Polish: objadać się — to eat food in a gluttonous manner
- Polish: objeść się — to eat food in a gluttonous manner
- Polish: obżerać się — to eat food in a gluttonous manner
- Polish: obeżreć się — to eat food in a gluttonous manner
- Northern Sami: frossa — to eat food in a gluttonous manner
- Turkish: tıkınmak — to eat food in a gluttonous manner
- Turkish: tıka basa yemek — to eat food in a gluttonous manner