"gastrolatry" meaning in English

See gastrolatry in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Etymology: gastro- + -latry Etymology templates: {{confix|en|gastro|latry}} gastro- + -latry Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} gastrolatry (uncountable)
  1. extreme devotion to eating or food. Tags: uncountable

Download JSON data for gastrolatry meaning in English (1.8kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "gastro",
        "3": "latry"
      },
      "expansion": "gastro- + -latry",
      "name": "confix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "gastro- + -latry",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "gastrolatry (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms prefixed with gastro-",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -latry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1874, Thomas Wright, A History of English Culture from the Earliest Known Period to Modern Times",
          "text": "Gastrolatry, indeed, is a worship which, at one time or other, has prevailed in different forms over all parts of the world — its history takes an extensive range, and is not altogether without interest.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1887, Gustave Louis Maurice Strauss, Dishes and Drinks: Or, Philosophy in the Kitchen, page 197",
          "text": "Tausenau worshipped his stomach. A Lucullus and an Apicius rolled into one could barely have given an adequate notion of his intense gastrolatry.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1988, L. S. Dembo, The monological Jew: a literary study, page 71",
          "text": "Explaining \"gastrolatry,\" worship of the stomach god, Bakhtin points out the saving nature of this kind of devotion.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "extreme devotion to eating or food."
      ],
      "id": "en-gastrolatry-en-noun-UcIBdyJ3",
      "links": [
        [
          "extreme",
          "extreme"
        ],
        [
          "devotion",
          "devotion"
        ],
        [
          "eat",
          "eat"
        ],
        [
          "food",
          "food"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "gastrolatry"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "gastro",
        "3": "latry"
      },
      "expansion": "gastro- + -latry",
      "name": "confix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "gastro- + -latry",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "gastrolatry (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms prefixed with gastro-",
        "English terms suffixed with -latry",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1874, Thomas Wright, A History of English Culture from the Earliest Known Period to Modern Times",
          "text": "Gastrolatry, indeed, is a worship which, at one time or other, has prevailed in different forms over all parts of the world — its history takes an extensive range, and is not altogether without interest.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1887, Gustave Louis Maurice Strauss, Dishes and Drinks: Or, Philosophy in the Kitchen, page 197",
          "text": "Tausenau worshipped his stomach. A Lucullus and an Apicius rolled into one could barely have given an adequate notion of his intense gastrolatry.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1988, L. S. Dembo, The monological Jew: a literary study, page 71",
          "text": "Explaining \"gastrolatry,\" worship of the stomach god, Bakhtin points out the saving nature of this kind of devotion.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "extreme devotion to eating or food."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "extreme",
          "extreme"
        ],
        [
          "devotion",
          "devotion"
        ],
        [
          "eat",
          "eat"
        ],
        [
          "food",
          "food"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "gastrolatry"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-20 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (1d5a7d1 and 304864d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.