Luxury
['lʌkʃ(ə)rɪ] or ['lʌɡʒəri]
Definition
(noun.) something that is an indulgence rather than a necessity.
(noun.) wealth as evidenced by sumptuous living.
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Definition
(n.) A free indulgence in costly food, dress, furniture, or anything expensive which gratifies the appetites or tastes.
(n.) Anything which pleases the senses, and is also costly, or difficult to obtain; an expensive rarity; as, silks, jewels, and rare fruits are luxuries; in some countries ice is a great luxury.
(n.) Lechery; lust.
(n.) Luxuriance; exuberance.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Voluptuousness, luxuriousness, sensuality, epicurism.[2]. Pleasure, gratification.[3]. Dainty, treat.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Effeminacy, epicurism, voluptuousness, wantonness, selfindulgence, softness,animalism, delicacy, dainty, profuseness
ANT:Hardness, asceticism, stoicism, self-denial, hardship
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Definition
n. free indulgence in rich diet or costly dress or equipage: anything delightful: a dainty: (Shak.) wantonness.—ns. Luxū′riance Luxū′riancy Luxurī′ety.—adj. Luxū′riant exuberant in growth: overabundant.—adv. Luxū′riantly.—v.i. Luxū′riate to be luxuriant: to grow exuberantly: to live luxuriously: to expatiate with delight.—n. Luxuriā′tion the act of luxuriating.—adj. Luxū′rious given to luxury: administering to luxury: furnished with luxuries: softening by pleasure: (Milt.) luxuriant: (Shak.) lustful.—adv. Luxū′riously.—ns. Luxū′riousness; Lux′urist one given to luxury.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream that you are surrounded by luxury, indicates much wealth, but dissipation and love of self will reduce your income. For a poor woman to dream that she enjoys much luxury, denotes an early change in her circumstances.
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Examples
- It is modernly used as a luxury by those who are able to combine with it other means for heating. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The agonies of remorse poison the luxury there is otherwise sometimes found in indulging the excess of grief. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Thus he spoke not persuading Cr?sus; for it is true indeed that the Persians before they subdued the Lydians had no luxury nor any good thing. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I belong to a profession in which that luxury is sometimes denied us. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Such luxury of grief, however, is only allowed to parlour-boarders. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I could not help feeling, though she mingled her tears with mine, that she had a dreadful luxury in our afflictions. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- It belonged in the list of softening, sensuous influences peculiar to this home of Eastern luxury. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I felt as if it must be a fine thing to live in a country where there was such comfort and such luxury as this. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Wealth, I said, and poverty; the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent. Plato. The Republic.
- This is a sumptuary law, too, restraining the luxury and extravagance of the poor. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- A tax upon tobacco, for example, though a luxury of the poor, as well as of the rich, will not raise wages. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- But to break my marriage vow for him--it is too poor a luxury! Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- He knew beforehand what the price of his luxury was; he has paid the price. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- It is too dangerous a luxury. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- As she said, she was 'fond of luxury', and her chief trouble was poverty. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Our first plan had been to quit our wintry native latitude, and seek for our diminished numbers the luxuries and delights of a southern climate. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Beer and ale, for example, in Great Britain, and wine, even in the wine countries, I call luxuries. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Don't go in for any of those luxuries. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- For money as money I care nothing, but I like luxuries which only money can buy, and therefore desire money. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- It is otherwise with taxes upon what I call luxuries, even upon those of the poor. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- I would not now have exchanged Lowood with all its privations for Gateshead and its daily luxuries. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- If mere existence, and not happiness, had been the final end of our being, what need of the profuse luxuries which we enjoy? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- I could not offer myself to any woman, even if she had no luxuries to renounce. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Consumable commodities, whether necessaries or luxuries, may be taxed in two different ways. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- No,' replied 'Bob Sawyer; 'can't afford expensive luxuries. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Consumable commodities are either necessaries or luxuries. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- All other things I call luxuries, without meaning, by this appellation, to throw the smallest degree of reproach upon the temperate use of them. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The child had many more luxuries and indulgences than had been awarded his father. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- All that I possessed of the luxuries of life came from him. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- People in high life have all the luxuries to themselves--among others, the luxury of indulging their feelings. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
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