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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A person devoted to pleasure and luxury; a voluptuary.
  2. n. A native or inhabitant of Sybaris.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. An inhabitant of Sybaris, an Achæan colony in Lucania, founded 720 b. c., and destroyed by the Crotoniates 510 b. c.; hence, a person devoted to luxury and pleasure, Sybaris being proverbial for its luxury.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A native or inhabitant of Sybaris.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A person devoted to luxury and pleasure; a voluptuary.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a person addicted to luxury and pleasures of the senses

Etymologies

  1. Latin Sybarīta, native of Sybaris, from Greek Subarītēs, from Subaris, Sybaris (from the notorious luxury of its inhabitants). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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