viveur
noun
viveur is a noun meaning “Someone who lives well” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-I-V-E-U-R, and it appears about once in every 58 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of viveur is viveurs.
What does viveur mean?
noun
- 1
Someone who lives well.
"Walter Moyne was an extraordinary man, colossally rich, well-meaning, intelligent, scrupulous, yet a viveur ... he collected yachts, fish, monkeys and women." from Chips, the diaries of Sir Henry Channon. Edited by Robert Rhodes James. Wei
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of viveur
- viveurs plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is viveur?
Viveur appears about once in every 58 million words in written English, the 237,177th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does viveur come from?
Borrowed from French viveur.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).