Gourmet vs J - What's the difference?
gourmet | j |
(of food) fine
A connoisseur in eating and drinking, someone who takes their food considerably more seriously than most.
The tenth letter of the .
palatal approximant
one
:: one ounce
(label) (l)
Image:Latin J.png, Capital and lowercase versions of J , in normal and italic type
Image:Fraktur letter J.png, Uppercase and lowercase J in Fraktur
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As a noun gourmet
is .As a letter j is
the tenth letter of the.As a symbol j is
the symbol for joule, the unit of work or energy in the international system of units.gourmet
English
(wikipedia gourmet)Adjective
(-)- Gourmet coffee is just like regular coffee, only better.
- We need to go to the gourmet grocery store to get the exotic ingredients for this recipe.
Usage notes
Gourmet has become somewhat debased by marketing usage, and is considered by some a pretentious middlebrow term. Such users tend to prefer terms such as (artisanal) (emphasizing the craft) for fine food.Coordinate terms
* (l)Noun
(en noun)Usage notes
Gourmet emphasizes interest in quality of food and enjoyment of eating, sometimes to an obsessive degree: someone who “lives to eat rather than eating to live”. By contrast, a gourmand is someone more interested in quantity of food than quality.Synonyms
* foodieSee also
* gourmand * haute cuisine ----j
Translingual
(wikipedia j)Letter
Symbol
(Palatal approximant) (head)- ?j