luxury
English
Etymology
From Middle English luxurie, borrowed from Old French luxurie, from Latin luxuria (“rankness, luxury”), from luxus (“extravagance, luxury”).
Noun
luxury (countable and uncountable, plural luxuries)
- Very wealthy and comfortable surroundings.
- Something desirable but expensive.
- 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 639762314, page 0088:
- “ […] 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 ? […] ”
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- Something very pleasant but not really needed in life.
Antonyms
- (dispensable thing): necessity
Translations
very wealthy and comfortable surroundings
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something desirable but expensive
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something very pleasant but not really needed in life
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Adjective
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.
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Further reading
- luxury in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- luxury at OneLook Dictionary Search
Middle English
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