Meaning

4 senses
  1. One who eats voraciously, obsessively, or to excess; a gormandizer.

    Such a glutton would eat until his belly hurts.

    Vielfraß, Nimmersatt, Völler

    чревоуго́дникčrevougódnik, обжо́раobžóra

    a person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess

  2. (broadly)One who consumes anything voraciously, obsessively, or to excess.

    Unersättlicher, Unersättliche

  3. (colloquial)A giant petrel.

  4. (archaic)The wolverine, Gulo gulo.

Examples

18 sentences
  1. Tom is a glutton.

    deTom ist ein Vielfraß.

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  2. She is a glutton for punishment.

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  3. In what way are we gluttons?

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  4. He is a glutton for work.

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  5. Sophie was a glutton.

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Translations

8 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
one who eats voraciously:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
one who eats voraciously:
one who gluts himself:

Origin

From Middle English glotoun, from Old French gloton, gluton, from Latin gluttō, gluttōnis

From Middle English glotoun, from Old French gloton, gluton, from Latin gluttō, gluttōnis (“glutton”).

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Forms

plural: gluttons
Singularglutton
Pluralgluttons

regular

Synonyms

23 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

8 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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