epicurean
pronunciation
How to pronounce epicurean in British English:
UK [ˌepɪkjʊəˈri:ən]
How to pronounce epicurean in American English:
US [ˌepɪkjʊˈriən]
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- Noun:
- a person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment (especially good food and drink)
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- Adjective:
- devoted to pleasure
- furnishing gratification of the senses
Word Origin
- epicurean (n.)
- late 14c., "follower of the philosophical system of Epicurus," from Old French Epicurien, or from epicure + -ian. From 1570s as "one devoted to pleasure." As an adjective, attested from 1580s in the philosophical sense and 1640s with the meaning "pleasure-loving."
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Example
- 1. A group of epicurean and stoic philosophers began to dispute with him .
- 2. Could the epicurean will hostile to pessimism be merely the prudence of a suffering man ?
- 3. Epicurean philosophy enjoyed almost six hundred years of popularity , remaining faithful to the teachings of its founder throughout , before being eclipsed by the roman interest in stoicism .
- 4. Lucretius , a roman epicurean , says you can think of simulacra as " images of things , a sort of outer skin perpetually peeled off the surfaces of objects and flying about this way and that through the air . "
- 5. Max is an inveterate epicurean .