luxury
The definition of a luxury is something that is not essential but is desirable and often expensive or the state of having or enjoying desirable and expensive things.
(noun)An example of luxury is a day at the spa.
Luxury is defined as something that is not essential but is expensive, desirable or valuable and provides comfort.
(adjective)An example of luxury is a description for expensive cars and big mansions.
See luxury in Webster's New World College Dictionary
noun pl. luxuries
- the use and enjoyment of the best and most costly things that offer the most physical comfort and satisfaction
- anything contributing to such enjoyment, usually something considered unnecessary to life and health
- the unusual intellectual or emotional pleasure or comfort derived from some specified thing: to give in to the luxury of tears
- something producing such pleasure or comfort
Origin: ME luxurie < OFr < L luxuria < luxus, extravagance, luxury, excess, prob. identical in orig. with luxus, dislocated: see luxate
adjective
See luxury in American Heritage Dictionary 4
noun pl. lux·u·ries
- Something inessential but conducive to pleasure and comfort.
- Something expensive or hard to obtain.
- Sumptuous living or surroundings: lives in luxury.
Origin:
Origin: Middle English luxurie, lust
Origin: , from Old French
Origin: , from Latin luxuria, excess, luxury
Origin: , from luxus
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