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Luxury
Definitions
- 1 Very expensive.
- 2 Not essential but desirable and enjoyable and indulgent.
- 3 Pertaining to the top-end market segment for mass production mass market vehicles, above the premium market segment.
- 1 Very wealthy and comfortable surroundings; the state of being that they create. countable, uncountable
"Near-synonyms: splendor, grandeur, grandness, decadence"
- 2 something that is an indulgence rather than a necessity wordnet
- 3 Something desirable but expensive and that one can live without. countable, uncountable
"“[…] 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? […]”"
- 4 the quality possessed by something that is excessively expensive wordnet
- 5 Something that is pleasant and desirable but not necessary in life (whether expensive or not). countable, uncountable
"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."
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- 6 wealth as evidenced by sumptuous living wordnet
- 7 Lustfulness; sexual desire or attraction. countable, obsolete, uncountable
"Fie on sinnefull phantasie: Fie on Lust, and Luxurie:"
- 8 Copulation; the act or action of sex. countable, obsolete, uncountable
"Let not the Royall Bed of Denmark be / A Couch for Luxury and damned Incest."
Etymology
From Middle English luxurie, from Old French luxurie, from Latin luxuria (“rankness, luxury”), from luxus (“extravagance, luxury”).
From Middle English luxurie, from Old French luxurie, from Latin luxuria (“rankness, luxury”), from luxus (“extravagance, luxury”).
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