Gourmand vs. Gourmet: What's the Difference?

Gourmand and Gourmet Definitions
Gourmand
A lover of good food.
Gourmet
A connoisseur of fine food and drink.
Gourmand
A person who often eats too much.
Gourmet
Being of a standard suitable for or characteristic of a gourmet
A gourmet meal.
A gourmet kitchen.
Gourmand
A person given to excess in the consumption of food and drink; a greedy or ravenous eater.
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Gourmet
(of food and drink) Fine; of superior quality.
We need to go to the gourmet grocery store to get the exotic ingredients for this recipe.
The restaurant offered gourmet coffee and cigars after the meal.
Gourmand
A person who appreciates good food.
Gourmet
A connoisseur in eating and drinking; someone who takes their food seriously.
Gourmand
A greedy or ravenous eater; a glutton. See Gormand.
That great gourmand, fat Apicius.
Gourmet
A connoisseur in eating and drinking; an epicure.
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Gourmand
A person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess
Gourmet
A person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment (especially good food and drink)