gourmet

Noun

A connoisseur of fine food and drink.
a person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment (especially good food and drink)
A connoisseur in eating and drinking; someone who takes their food seriously.

Adj

Fine; of superior quality.

Examples

Only a true Scrabble GOURMET could appreciate the nuanced elegance of his seven-letter play.
The restaurant offered gourmet coffee and cigars after the meal.
We need to go to the gourmet grocery store to get the exotic ingredients for this recipe.

Origin / 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 *grōm (“male child, boy, youth”), akin to Old English grōwan (“to grow”). Cognate of Spanish grumete and Catalan grumet. More at groom.

Synonyms

bon vivant, epicure, epicurean, foodie, gastronome, gourmand

Scrabble Score: 10

gourmet: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
gourmet: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
gourmet: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 13

gourmet: valid Words With Friends Word