Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A person devoted to pleasure and luxury; a voluptuary.
- noun A native or inhabitant of Sybaris.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An inhabitant of Sybaris, an Achæan colony in Lucania, founded 720
b. c. , and destroyed by the Crotoniates 510b. c. ; hence, a person devoted to luxury and pleasure, Sybaris being proverbial for its luxury.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A person devoted to luxury and pleasure; a voluptuary.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A native or inhabitant of
Sybaris .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person addicted to luxury and pleasures of the senses
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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"Sybarite," said the little man, flushing, "P. -- by the grace of
The Day of Days An Extravaganza Louis Joseph Vance 1906
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London-based architects Sybarite have designed a £1 million, environmentally friendly "home in the sky" that sits on stilts.
Closer to the Stars Jemima Sissons 2011
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Sam, meanwhile, will ride Sybarite in the Albert Bartlett, just before the big race of the week.
Nigel Twiston-Davies sure Imperial Commander will be a Cheltenham star 2011
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Sybarite "could be my next Imperial Commander" and Twiston-Davies clearly expects both horses to win – with the possibility that Baby Run could complete the treble the trainer snatched on the Friday last year.
Nigel Twiston-Davies sure Imperial Commander will be a Cheltenham star 2011
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What chance had this cultured honour-loving Sybarite in the deadly grapple of modern life where the first quality is will power, the only knowledge needed a knowledge of the value of money.
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Mark Antony had been remarkably sober since marching for the East, but the sixty men in his entourage had expected that Nicomedia would see Antony the Sybarite erupt.
Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007
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A Sybarite of old, as I find it registered in [2286] Athenaeus, supping in Phiditiis in
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Mark Antony had been remarkably sober since marching for the East, but the sixty men in his entourage had expected that Nicomedia would see Antony the Sybarite erupt.
Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007
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Snymdiris the Sybarite never saw the sun rise or set so much as once in twenty years.
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Prison for Oscar Wilde, an English prison with its insufficient bad food16 and soul-degrading routine for that amiable, joyous, eloquent, pampered Sybarite.
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