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• bon-vivant

Borrowed from French bon vivant (literally “one who lives well, good ‘liver’ (living person)”), from bon (“good”) + vivant (“person who is living”), agent noun of vivre (“to live”).

• (US) IPA(key): /ˌbɑn vɪvˈɑnt/, /ˌbɑn viˈvɑnt/
• (UK) IPA(key): /ˌbɒ̃ viːˈvɒ̃/
• Rhymes: -ɒnt

bon vivant (plural bon vivants or bons vivants)

1. A man who enjoys luxurious things in life, especially good food and drink; a man about town.
   Synonyms: bon viveur, hedonist; see also Thesaurus:sensualist

• joie de vivre
• bonne vivante (feminine form)

person who enjoys the good things in life, especially good food and drink

• Catalan: vividor (ca) m, vividora f, panxacontent (ca) m, panxacontenta (ca) f

• Czech: požitkář (cs) m, bonviván (cs) m

• Danish: levemand c, livsnyder c

• Dutch: levensgenieter (nl) m, bon-vivant m, pallieter (nl) m, pretmaker (nl) m

• Esperanto: bonvivanto (eo)

• Estonian: elunautija

• Finnish: elämännautiskelija, elostelija (fi)

• French: bon vivant (fr) m, bonne vivante (fr) f

• German: Bonvivant (de) m, Lebemann (de) m, Genussmensch (de) m

• Greek: φιλήδονος (el) m (filídonos), καλοζωιστής (el) m (kalozoïstís), μπον βιβέρ (el) m (bon vivér)

• Hungarian: bonviván (hu)

• Ido: bon-vivero

• Italian: gaudente (it) m or f, viveur (it) m, viveuse f

• Kannada: ಭೋಜನಪ್ರಿಯ (kn) (bhōjanapriya), ಸುಭೋಜ್ಯಪ್ರಿಯ (kn) (subhōjyapriya), ಭೋಜನ ರಸಿಕ (kn) (bhōjana rasika), ಪಾಕಪ್ರಿಯ (kn) (pākapriya)

• Kurdish:
  Northern Kurdish: xoşxwara

• Macedonian: мераклија m (meraklija)

• Norwegian:
  Bokmål: livsnyter (no) m, levemann m

• Polish: bon vivant (pl) m

• Portuguese: boêmio (pt) m

• Russian: жуи́р (ru) m (žuír), бонвива́н (ru) m (bonviván)

• Spanish: vividor (es) m, vividora (es) f

• Swedish: goddagsplit c, livsnjutare (sv) c, vivör (sv) c, lebeman (sv) c, festprisse (sv) c

• boulevardier

• dandy

• man about town

• IPA(key): /bɔ̃ vi.vɑ̃/

bon vivant m (plural bons vivants, feminine bonne vivante)

1. a bon vivant, who enjoys the good things in life
   Synonym: (obsolete) bon viveur
   Antonym: mal-vivant

Unadapted borrowing from French bon vivant.

• IPA(key): [ˌbɔ̃ viˈvã]
• Syllabification: [please specify syllabification manually]

bon vivant m pers

1. (literary) bon vivant
   Synonym: bon viveur

• bon vivant in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• bon vivant in Polish dictionaries at PWN