different between gourmet vs gormand

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French gourmet, from Middle French gourmet, from Old French groumet (“wine broker, valet in charge of wines, servant”) from groume, grommes (“wine-taster, manservant”), apparently from Middle English grom, grome (“boy, valet, servant”), from Old English *gr?ma (“male child, boy, youth”), akin to Old English gr?wan (“to grow”). More at groom.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /????me?/, /????me?/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /????me?/, /????me?/
• Rhymes: -e?

Adjective

gourmet (not comparable)

1. (of food and drink) Fine; of superior quality. [from 1820]

   We need to go to the gourmet grocery store to get the exotic ingredients for this recipe.

   The restaurant offered gourmet coffee and cigars after the meal.

Usage notes

Gourmet has become somewhat debased by marketing usage, and is considered by some a pretentious middlebrow term. Such users tend to prefer terms such as artisanal (emphasizing the craft) for fine food.

Coordinate terms

• artisanal

Translations

Noun

gourmet (plural gourmets)

1. A connoisseur in eating and drinking; someone who takes their food seriously.

Usage notes

Gourmet emphasizes interest in quality of food and enjoyment of eating, sometimes to an obsessive degree: someone who “lives to eat rather than eating to live”. By contrast, a gourmand is someone more interested in quantity of food than quality.

Synonyms

• foodie
• gourmand

Translations

See also

• gourmand
• haute cuisine

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?u?r?m?t/, /?u?r?m?t/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French gourmet.

Noun

gourmet m (plural gourmets, diminutive gourmetje n)

1. a person of refined palate for food and drink, a gourmet, a foodie
2. a kind of festive meal, similar to raclette or Chinese hot pot, prepared at the table by the diners in individual pots heated by a raclette grill

Derived terms

• gourmetten
• gourmetpan
• gourmetset

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

gourmet

1. first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of gourmetten
2. imperative of gourmetten

Finnish

Etymology

From French gourmet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??urme?/, [??urme??]

Adjective

gourmet

1. Alternative form of gurmee

Declension

Noun

gourmet

1. Alternative form of gurmee

Declension

French

Etymology

Middle French gourmet, from Old French groumet (“wine broker, valet in charge of wines, servant”) from Old French grommes (“manservant”), from Middle English grom, grome (“boy, valet, servant”) of unknown origin, perhaps from Old English *gr?ma (“male child, boy, youth”) from Old English gr?wan (“to grow”). More at groom.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?u?.m?/

Noun

gourmet m (plural gourmets)

1. (of wines) a wine expert, especially one who is adept at determining the label, date, and sundry other qualities solely by smatch
2. (more commonly) a culinary connoisseur, gourmet

Descendants

Further reading

• “gourmet” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Etymology

From French gourmet.

Noun

gourmet m or f (invariable)

1. gourmet

Further reading

• gourmet in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• gurmê (rare)

Etymology

From French gourmet.

Adjective

gourmet (plural gourmet, comparable)

1. (of food) gourmet; fine

Noun

gourmet m, f (plural gourmets)

1. gourmet (a person who appreciates good food)

Further reading

• “gourmet” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Spanish

Etymology

From French gourmet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?u??met/, [?u??met?]

• IPA^(key): /?u??me/, [?u??me]

Adjective

gourmet (plural gourmets)

1. gourmet

Further reading

• “gourmet” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Noun

gormand (plural gormands)

1. Obsolete spelling of gourmand

References

• Chambers's Etymological Dictionary, 1896, p. 208

Anagrams

• drogman