sommelier
The member of staff at a restaurant who keeps the wine cellar and advises the guests…The member of staff at a restaurant who keeps the wine cellar and advises the guests on a choice of wines; a wine steward / stewardess, a wine waiter / waitress / server.
» Adriano enjoys discussing wine with his sommelier.
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1 sensesThe member of staff at a restaurant who keeps the wine cellar and advises the guests on a choice of wines; a wine steward / stewardess, a wine waiter / waitress / server.
The sommelier recommended the perfect wine, opened the bottle with panache, and served it into glasses.
Weinkellner, Weinkellnerin, Sommelier
сомелье́somelʹjé
сомельє́somelʹjé
a waiter who manages wine service in a hotel or restaurant
Examples
5 sentencesAdriano enjoys discussing wine with his sommelier.
The sommelier approves of customers who choose red wine with fish.
Tom is a sommelier.
Benedito's restaurant has a sommelier.
The sommelier recommended a wine to Adriano.
Translations
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Origin
Borrowed from French sommelier (“originally, a person in charge of the beasts of burden caBorrowed from French sommelier (“originally, a person in charge of the beasts of burden carrying wine”), from somme (“pack”) + -ier (suffix forming the names of jobs). somme is from Vulgar Latin *sauma, from Latin sagma (“packsaddle”).
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Forms
plural: sommeliers| Singular | sommelier |
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Synonyms
6 synonyms- a waiter who manages wine service in a hotel or restaurant:wine waiterwine steward
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.