Word Meanings - GOURMAND - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A greedy or ravenous eater; a glutton. See Gormand. That great gourmand, fat Apicius B. Jonson.

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• RAVENOUS
  1. Devouring with rapacious eagerness; furiously voracious; hungry even to rage; as, a ravenous wolf or vulture. 2. Eager for prey or gratification; as, a ravenous appetite or desire. -- Rav"en*ous*ly, adv. -- Rav"en*ous*ness, n.
• GREAT-HEARTED
  1. High-spirited; fearless. Clarendon. 2. Generous; magnanimous; noble.
• GREAT-GRANDFATHER
  The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• GLUTTONY
  Excess in eating; extravagant indulgence of the appetite for food; voracity. Their sumptuous gluttonies, and gorgeous feasts. Milton.
• GORMANDIZE
  To eat greedily; to swallow voraciously; to feed ravenously or like a glutton. Shak.
• GORMANDER
  See N
• GREAT-GRANDSON
  A son of one's grandson or granddaughter.
• GREAT-HEARTEDNESS
  The quality of being greathearted; high-mindedness; magnanimity.
• GREAT-GRANDMOTHER
  The mother of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• GREATLY
  1. In a great degree; much. I will greatly multiply thy sorrow. Gen. iii. 16. 2. Nobly; illustriously; magnanimously. By a high fate thou greatly didst expire. Dryden.
• GREAT-GRANDDAUGHTER
  A daughter of one's grandson or granddaughter.
• GREEDY-GUT
  A glutton. Todd.
• GLUTTONOUS
  Given to gluttony; eating to excess; indulging the appetite; voracious; as, a gluttonous age. -- Glut"ton*ous*ly, adv. -- Glut"ton*ous*ness, n.
• GREAT-GRANDCHILD
  The child of one's grandson or granddaughter.
• GREATNESS
  1. The state, condition, or quality of being great; as, greatness of size, greatness of mind, power, etc. 2. Pride; haughtiness. It is not of pride or greatness that he cometh not aboard your ships. Bacon.
• EATER
  One who, or that which, eats.
• GREAT
  great, AS. gret; akin to OS. & LG. grt, D. groot, OHG. grz, G. gross. 1. Large in space; of much size; big; immense; enormous; expanded; -- opposed to small and little; as, a great house, ship, farm, plain, distance, length. 2. Large in number;
• GLUTTONIZE
  To eat to excess; to eat voraciously; to gormandize. Hallywell.
• GORMANDIZER
  A greedy, voracious eater; a gormand; a glutton.
• GREAT WHITE WAY
  Broadway, in New York City, in the neighborhood chiefly occupied by theaters, as from about 30th Street about 50th Street; -- so called from its brilliant illumination at night.
• INGREAT
  To make great; to enlarge; to magnify. Fotherby.
• OVERGREEDY
  Excessively greedy.
• BLEATER
  One who bleats; a sheep. In cold, stiff soils the bleaters oft complain Of gouty ails. Dyer.
• REPEATER
  One who, or that which, repeats. Specifically: A watch with a striking apparatus which, upon pressure of a spring, will indicate the time, usually in hours and quarters. A repeating firearm. An instrument for resending a telegraphic message
• BEE-EATER
  A bird of the genus Merops, that feeds on bees. The European species is remarkable for its brilliant colors. An African bird of the genus Rhinopomastes.
• TREATER
  One who treats; one who handles, or discourses on, a subject; also, one who entertains.
• BEATER
  1. One who, or that which, beats. 2. A person who beats up game for the hunters. Black.
• SWEATER
  1. One who sweats. 2. One who, or that which, causes to sweat; as: A sudorific. A woolen jacket or jersey worn by athletes. An employer who oppresses his workmen by paying low wages.