sommelier

noun

som·me·lier ˌsə-məl-ˈyā

plural sommeliers ˌsə-məl-ˈyā(z)

Synonyms of sommelier next

: a waiter in a restaurant who has charge of wines and their service : a wine steward

Examples of sommelier in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Send any news, comments, lyre strums, and cicada sommeliers to talk@qz.com. —

Morgan Haefner, Quartz, 23 May 2024 The restaurant has a 3,500-bottle wine cellar heavy on California wines, though sommelier John Kelley has also stocked ample Burgundies and Bordeaux, as well as sweet Rivesaltes wine from the French region of Languedoc-Roussillon, bottled in the 1940s and 1950s. —

Amanda Yeager, Baltimore Sun, 28 Feb. 2024 See all Example Sentences for sommelier

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Word History

Etymology

French, from Middle French soumelier official charged with transportation of supplies, from Old French, pack animal driver, probably alteration of *sommerier, from somier pack animal, from Medieval Latin saugmarius, from Late Latin sagma packsaddle — more at sumpter

First Known Use

1829, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler

The first known use of sommelier was in 1829

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