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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from French bon vivant (literally “one who lives well, good ‘liver’ (living person)”), from bon (“good”) + vivant (“person who is living”), agent noun of vivre (“to live”).
Pronunciation
Noun
bon vivant (plural bon vivants or bons vivants)
- A man who enjoys luxurious things in life, especially good food and drink; a man about town.
Synonyms
Related terms
Translations
person who enjoys the good things in life, especially good food and drink
- Catalan: vividor (ca) m, vividora f, panxacontent (ca) m, panxacontenta (ca) f
- Czech: požitkář (cs) m, bonviván (cs) m
- Danish: levemand c, livsnyder c
- Dutch: levensgenieter (nl) m, bon-vivant m, pallieter (nl) m, pretmaker (nl) m
- Esperanto: bonvivanto (eo)
- Estonian: elunautija
- Finnish: elämännautiskelija, elostelija (fi)
- French: bon vivant (fr) m, bonne vivante (fr) f
- German: Bonvivant (de) m, Lebemann (de) m, Genussmensch (de) m
- Greek: φιλήδονος (el) m (filídonos), καλοζωιστής (el) m (kalozoïstís), μπον βιβέρ (el) m (bon vivér)
- Hungarian: bonviván (hu)
- Ido: bon-vivero
- Italian: gaudente (it) m or f, viveur (it) m, viveuse f
- Kannada: ಭೋಜನಪ್ರಿಯ (kn) (bhōjanapriya), ಸುಭೋಜ್ಯಪ್ರಿಯ (kn) (subhōjyapriya), ಭೋಜನ ರಸಿಕ (kn) (bhōjana rasika), ಪಾಕಪ್ರಿಯ (kn) (pākapriya)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: xoşxwara
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: livsnyter (no) m, levemann m
- Polish: bon vivant (pl) m
- Portuguese: boêmio (pt) m
- Russian: жуи́р (ru) m (žuír), бонвива́н (ru) m (bonviván)
- Spanish: vividor (es) m, vividora (es) f
- Swedish: goddagsplit c, livsnjutare (sv) c, vivör (sv) c, lebeman (sv) c, festprisse (sv) c
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See also
French
Pronunciation
Noun
bon vivant m (plural bons vivants, feminine bonne vivante)
- a bon vivant, who enjoys the good things in life
- Synonym: (obsolete) bon viveur
- Antonym: mal-vivant
Polish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from French bon vivant.
Pronunciation
Noun
bon vivant m pers
- (literary) bon vivant
- Synonym: bon viveur
Declension
Further reading
- bon vivant in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- bon vivant in Polish dictionaries at PWN