viveur

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noun

Someone who lives well.

OriginFrench viveur →
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Meanings

nounviveur (plural viveurs)

plural viveurs

  1. Someone who lives well.

    "Walter Moyne was an extraordinary man, colossally rich, well-meaning, intelligent, scrupulous, yet a viveur ... he collected yachts, fish, monkeys and women." from Chips, the diaries of Sir Henry Channon. Edited by Robert Rhodes James. Weidenfeld and Nicholson, London, 1967.

Origin

  1. Frenchviveur
  2. Frenchviveur
  3. Englishviveur

Borrowed from French viveur.

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APA

viveur. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/viveur

MLA

“viveur.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/viveur. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “viveur,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/viveur.

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