Definition of Sommelier

1. Noun. A waiter who manages wine service in a hotel or restaurant.

Exact synonyms: Wine Steward, Wine Waiter
Generic synonyms: Server, Waiter

Definition of Sommelier

1. Noun. A wine steward. The person at an expensive restaurant who keeps the wine cellar and advises guests on a choice of wines. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Sommelier

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sommelier

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somewhile
somewhither
somewhy
somewise
somilase
somital
somite
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somites
somitic
somitic mesoderm
somitogenesis
sommage
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sommeliers
sommer
sommerset
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sommonour
sommonours
somnabulate
somnabulated
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somnambulant
somnambular
somnambulate

Literary usage of Sommelier

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Waiter, There's a Horse in My Wine: A Treasury of Entertainment, Exploration by Jennifer "Chotzi" Rosen (2005)
"Do not ask for whom the sommelier calls; he calls for thee. ... Just for you, I parachuted behind enemy lines and captured a live sommelier. ..."

2. The Romance of Engineering: The Stories of the Highway, the Waterway, the by Henry Frith (1895)
"CHAPTER III. THE ALPS.—THE MONT CENIS, ITS PASS AND TUNNEL. THE STORY OF Sommelier AND HIS MATES. ground is more ..."

3. Cobbett's Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett, David Jardine (1809)
"... sent he forth his chefe sommelier, with a very sharp citación, vnto the castell of Cowling, whereas he at that tyme dwelt fur his sol-ice. ..."

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