Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A person devoted to pleasure and luxury; a voluptuary.
- n. A native or inhabitant of Sybaris.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- 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
- n. A native or inhabitant of Sybaris.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A person devoted to luxury and pleasure; a voluptuary.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a person addicted to luxury and pleasures of the senses
Etymologies
- 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)
Examples
“Sybarite," said the little man, flushing, "P. -- by the grace of”
“London-based architects Sybarite have designed a £1 million, environmentally friendly "home in the sky" that sits on stilts.”
“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.”
The Guardian: Nigel Twiston-Davies sure Imperial Commander will be a Cheltenham star
“Sam, meanwhile, will ride Sybarite in the Albert Bartlett, just before the big race of the week.”
The Guardian: Nigel Twiston-Davies sure Imperial Commander will be a Cheltenham star
“A Sybarite of old, as I find it registered in [2286] Athenaeus, supping in Phiditiis in”
“Snymdiris the Sybarite never saw the sun rise or set so much as once in twenty years.”
“Prison for Oscar Wilde, an English prison with its insufficient bad food16 and soul-degrading routine for that amiable, joyous, eloquent, pampered Sybarite.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Without being a Sybarite, I certainly do prefer a comfortable pulu bed to one of ridgy lava, and the fire which blazes on this broad hearth to the camp-fire on the frozen top of the volcano.”
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