• (British) IPA: /ˈɡʊə.mənd/, /ˈɡʊʁmɑ̃/
• (America) IPA: /ɡɔɹˈmɑnd/, /ˈɡʊɹ.mɑnd/

gourmand (plural gourmands)

1. A person given to excess in the consumption of food and drink; a greedy or ravenous eater.
   • 1616, Benjamin Jonson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Sejanus”, in The Workes of Ben Jonson (First Folio), London: By Will[iam] Stansby, OCLC 960101342 ↗, Act I, page 365 ↗:

     I knew him, at {{smc

   • 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter I, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 731476803 ↗, page 5 ↗:

     The colonel and his sponsor made a queer contrast: Greystone [the sponsor] long and stringy, with a face that seemed as if a cold wind was eternally playing on it. […] But there was not a more lascivious reprobate and gourmand in all London than this same Greystone.

2. A person who appreciates good food.

• (person given to excess consumption) glutton, trencherman, see also Thesaurus:glutton
• (person who appreciates food) chowhound, gastronaut, gourmet
• (person with a special interest or knowledge of food) foodie

• French: glouton, goulu, goinfre, boulimique
• German: Gourmand, Schlemmer / Schlemmerin, Vielfraß, Völler
• Italian: ghiottone, golosone
• Portuguese: gourmand, comilão, glutão, guloso
• Russian: обжо́ра
• Spanish: tragaldabas, glotón, comilón, tragón, goloso

• French: gourmet, dégustateur, gastronome, gourmand, gourmande
• German: Feinschmecker, Feinschmeckerin, Gourmet
• Italian: buongustaio
• Portuguese: gourmand
• Russian: гурма́н
• Spanish: gastrónomo, sibarita, gourmet, goloso