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GASTRONOMY
Definition of GASTRONOMY
noun
The art of preparing and eating good food.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From French gastronomie, from Ancient Greek γαστρονομία (gastronomía), from γαστήρ (gastḗr, “stomach”) + νόμος (nómos, “knowledge, law”); by surface analysis, gastro- (“cooking”) + -nomy (“a system of rules or laws about a particular field”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Ancient Greek
- French
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
2nd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
12.6%
of traced words share this origin (3,724)
branch · 12.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, GASTRONOMY · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
GASTRONOMY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 48 boards so far. 182 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 6, 27 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 147, 14 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 6, 27 May 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
GASTRONOMY starts with G and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read AGMNOORSTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once.
Words that start GASTRO
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 6
Could you have found GASTRONOMY?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 6 - and most players walked straight past it.
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