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Definition of Bon vivant
1. Noun. A person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment (especially good food and drink).
Generic synonyms: Sensualist
Derivative terms: Epicurean, Epicurean
Definition of Bon vivant
1. p. pr. A good fellow; a jovial companion; a free liver.
Definition of Bon vivant
1. Noun. a person who enjoys the good things in life, especially good food and drink; a man about town ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bon Vivant
Literary usage of Bon vivant
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U.S.A., in the Rocky Mountains and the by Washington Irving, Benjamin Louis Eulalie de Bonneville (1895)
"... Canadian bon vivant—A Cache—A Rapid Move— Wyeth and his Plans—His Travelling
Companions —Buffalo Hunting—More Conviviality—An Interruption. ..."
2. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1805)
"... the exception of some indecent passages, deserves the general notice of the
public, as well as the particular regard of the scholar, and the bon-vivant. ..."
3. Of Much Love and Some Knowledge of Books by Henry Eduard Legler, Caxton Club (1912)
"... called Omar "that Persian blackguard," and more recently Edgar Saltus has
termed the "ruffian heterodoxy of this Persian bon vivant" commonplace, ..."
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