gourmet

Meanings

Adjective

• Fine; of superior quality.

Noun

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

Related

Similar words

• foodie
• gourmand

Origin

• Borrowed from French gourmet, from Middle French gourmet, from Old French groumet from groume, grommes, apparently from Middle English grom, grome, from Old English *grōma, akin to Old English grōwan. More at groom.