glutton

C2+ Topic:People & Society

US /ˈɡlʌtən/ UK /ˈɡlʌtn/ See IPA manual

Meanings

1

noun
a person who eats and drinks to excess

He was a glutton who never left a crumb on the table.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

1 noun · a person who eats and... gourmand gorgerovereatergobblerpig

Opposites

ascetic abstainer

Word family

Derived forms gluttonous gluttonygluttonize

Related forms glut

Etymology

From Old French gluton ('glutton'), from Latin glutto (stem glutton-), related to gluttire ('to swallow').

gluton Old French glutto Latin

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Topics

People & Society

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# glutton

**Type:** Word
**Level:** C2+
**Part of speech:** noun
**IPA (US):** /ˈɡlʌtən/
**IPA (UK):** /ˈɡlʌtn/

## Meanings
1. a person who eats and drinks to excess

## Examples
- He was a glutton who never left a crumb on the table.

## Synonyms
- gourmand
- gorger
- overeater
- gobbler
- pig

## Antonyms
- ascetic
- abstainer

## Derived Forms
- gluttonous
- gluttony
- gluttonize

## Related Forms
- glut

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: gluton
- Root: glutto

## Etymology
From Old French gluton ('glutton'), from Latin glutto (stem glutton-), related to gluttire ('to swallow').

## AI Etymology
Glutton comes from Old French gluton ('glutton'), from Latin glutto (stem glutton-), related to gluttire ('to swallow'). The development is chiefly a borrowing or learned continuation, carrying an older form and meaning into English rather than building the word from a purely native base. In present use, it is used as a noun meaning "a person who eats and drinks to excess", so the historical material remains connected with the current sense rather than standing as bare ancestry. The wider English family includes derivatives such as gluttonous, gluttony, and gluttonize and related forms such as glut, showing how the same historical material continues to organize neighboring vocabulary. The named historical forms include Old French gluton and Latin glutto, keeping the history tied to concrete forms rather than a loose resemblance. Its semantic neighborhood is marked by gourmand, gorger, overeater, and gobbler on one side and contrasts such as ascetic and abstainer on the other, locating the modern specialization without adding a new origin story.

## Topics
- People & Society

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