bon vivants
Lovers of life
Bon vivants are people devoted to enjoying life's pleasures—fine food, good wine, lively company.
The French term literally means "good livers" in the sense of living well.
A bon vivant cultivates refined tastes and sociable habits: The restaurant attracted bon vivants from across the city.
The singular is bon vivant.
- epicuresConnoisseurs of fine cuisine
- gastronomeCulinary connoisseur
- hedonistSeeker of sensual satisfaction
- sensualistOne devoted to pleasures
- indulgenceYielding to desire
dolce vita · gourmet · high society · jet set · sybarite · flâneur · café culture · boulevardier · pleasure-seeker · fête · oenophile · wine and dine · bon mot · roué · raconteur · connoisseurs · savoir-vivre · libertines
- food loversfoodies, gourmets, gourmands, epicures, food critics
- high societygossip, socialites, socialite, aristocrats, aristocrat
- cafe societysocialites, glitterati, jet setters, debutantes, heiresses
- eliteelite, elites, aristocrats, nobility, best
- eliteselites, plutocrats, oligarchs, aristocrats, blue bloods
- partygoerspartygoers, party-goer, party-goers, attendee, partier
bon vivantsascetics
People practicing severe self-discipline
abstainers · killjoys · monks · nuns · teetotalers
bon vivantshermits
People choosing isolation
recluses · misanthropes · loners · shut-ins · wallflowers
bon vivantsminimalists
Advocates of deliberate simplicity
penny-pinchers · cheapskates · plain folk · roughnecks · philistines
survive, revive, revival, survival, survivor, vivacious, convivial, vivacity, viva