What does gastronomy mean?
Word: Gastronomy
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: Gastronomy means the art and study of cooking and eating good food.
How do you spell gastronomy?
Syllables: gas - tron - o - my
Tricky part: The ending is nomy, spelt with an o and a y, though it is said quickly as 'nuh-mee'. Gastronomi and gastronomey are wrong.
Watch out for: gastronomey, gastronomi
Memory tip: Economy and gastronomy share their last four letters, so if you can spell one ending you can finish the other.
Gastronomy in a sentence
Example 1: Tourists come to Indore for its famous street-food gastronomy.
Example 2: She wrote a book on the gastronomy of the North-East.
Example 3: Gastronomy is as much about how a meal is shared as what is on the plate.
Fun Fact
In 2015 UNESCO named Parma, in Italy, a Creative City of Gastronomy; the city is famous for Parma ham and Parmesan cheese.
Practise the CREST Way
Word Cookie
Insert the correct pair of letters to form a word:
g_str_nomy
a) e, o
b) a, o
c) u, o
d) a, a
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b) a, o. The word begins with gas and then tron, as in the middle of astronaut.
Word Connection
Choose the synonym of the word gastronomy as used in the sentence:
Lucknow's gastronomy, from kebabs to sweets, draws food lovers from across the country.
a) architecture
b) cuisine
c) agriculture
d) geology
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b) cuisine. Gastronomy here means a city's style of cooking and food, which is its cuisine.
Mingle-Mangle
Rearrange the jumbled letters in the sentence to form the right word:
Our chef uncle says that oynaotgsrm is a science as well as an art.
a) taxonomy
b) astronomy
c) autonomy
d) gastronomy
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d) gastronomy. Astronomy has no g, autonomy needs a u and taxonomy an x; with the g, the letters make gastronomy.
Spell-o-Spell
Choose the meaning of the word that is spelt wrongly.
1. recipie 2. gastronomy 3. ingredient 4. appetite
a) the wish to eat
b) a set of instructions for cooking a dish
c) the art of cooking and eating good food
d) one of the foods that go into a dish
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b) a set of instructions for cooking a dish. Recipe ends in a single e after the p; gastronomy, ingredient and appetite are correct.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. A city famous for its gastronomy is a good place to ____.
a) taste fine food
b) watch the stars
c) buy cheap cloth
d) climb mountains
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a) taste fine food
2. Which person works most closely with gastronomy?
a) a pilot
b) a chef
c) a tailor
d) a dentist
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b) a chef
