Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Excess in eating or drinking.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Excess in eating, or in eating and drinking; extravagant indulgence of the appetite for food; voracity; luxury of the table.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Excess in eating; extravagant indulgence of the appetite for food; voracity.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The vice of eating to excess.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun habitual eating to excess
  • noun eating to excess (personified as one of the deadly sins)

Etymologies

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Old French glutonie, from gloton + -ie < Latin gluto.

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