luxury
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Due to their high market price, most gemstones, such as diamonds, for example, are widely associated with luxury
English
Etymology
From Middle English luxurie, from Old French luxurie, from Latin luxuria (“rankness, luxury”), from luxus (“extravagance, luxury”).
Pronunciation
Noun
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 Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, , 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 Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, , page 258, column 1:
- Let not the Royall Bed of Denmark be / A Couch for Luxury and damned Incest.
Synonyms
Antonyms
- (antonym(s) of “dispensable thing”): necessity
Derived terms
Translations
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
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
(automotive):
Translations
indulgent
Related terms
Further reading
- “luxury”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “luxury”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Middle English
Noun
luxury
- Alternative form of luxurie