luxury

lux·u·ry

Use luxury in a sentence

A couple enjoys the luxury of a spa.

adjective

Luxury is defined as something that is not essential but is expensive, desirable or valuable and provides comfort.
An example of luxury is a description for expensive cars and big mansions.

noun

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.
An example of luxury is a day at the spa.

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luxury

noun

pl. -·ries

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
1. the unusual intellectual or emotional pleasure or comfort derived from some specified thing: to give in to the luxury of tears
2. something producing such pleasure or comfort

Origin of luxury

Middle English luxurie from Old French from Classical Latin luxuria from luxus, extravagance, luxury, excess, probably identical in origin, originally with luxus, dislocated: see luxate

characterized by luxury

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luxury

noun

pl. lux·u·ries

Sumptuous or extremely comfortable living or surroundings: lives in luxury.
a. Something that is not essential but provides pleasure and comfort: felt entitled to a few luxuries after so much hard work.
b. Something that is desirable but expensive or hard to obtain or do: did not have the luxury of working in an up-to-date laboratory.

adjective

Providing luxury: a luxury car.

Origin of luxury

Middle English luxurie lust from Old French from Latin luxuria excess, luxury from luxus

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luxury

luxury extravagance frill

These nouns denote something desirable that is not a necessity: the real luxury of riding in a limousine; a simple wedding without any extravagances; caviar and other culinary frills.

Antonym: necessity

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Noun

(plural luxuries)

Very wealthy and comfortable surroundings.
Something desirable but expensive.
Something very pleasant but not really needed in life.

Adjective

(comparative more luxury, superlative most luxury)

very expensive

Origin

Middle English luxurie, from Old French luxurie, from Latin luxuria (“rankness, luxury"), from luxus (“extravagance, luxury").

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