luxury
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English luxurie, from Old French luxurie, from Latin luxuria (“rankness, luxury”), from luxus (“extravagance, luxury”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]luxury (countable and uncountable, plural luxuries)
- Very wealthy and comfortable surroundings.
- Something desirable but expensive.
- 1910, Emerson Hough, “A Lady in Company”, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
- “ […] We are engaged in a great work, a treatise on our river fortifications, perhaps? But since when did army officers afford the luxury of amanuenses in this simple republic? […] ”
- Something that is pleasant but not necessary in life.
- 2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 68:
- As the 1857 to Manchester Piccadilly rolls in, I scan the windows and realise there are plenty of spare seats, so I hop aboard. The train is a '221'+'220' combo to allow for social distancing - a luxury on an XC train as normally you're playing sardines, so I make the most of it.
- (obsolete) Lustfulness; sexual desire or attraction.
- c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iv], page 51, column 2:
- Fie on sinnefull phantasie: Fie on Lust, and Luxurie:
- (obsolete) Copulation; the act or action of sex.
- c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii], page 258, column 1:
- Let not the Royall Bed of Denmark be / A Couch for Luxury and damned Incest.
Synonyms
[edit]Antonyms
[edit]- (antonym(s) of “dispensable thing”): necessity
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]very wealthy and comfortable surroundings
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something desirable but expensive
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something pleasant but not necessary in life
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Adjective
[edit]luxury (comparative more luxury, superlative most luxury)
- Very expensive.
- Not essential but desirable and enjoyable and indulgent.
- (automotive) Pertaining to the top-end market segment for mass production mass market vehicles, above the premium market segment.
Coordinate terms
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Translations
[edit]indulgent
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “luxury”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “luxury”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Middle English
[edit]Noun
[edit]luxury
- Alternative form of luxurie
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