luxury 
luxu·ry (luk′s̸hə rē, -s̸ho̵or ē; lug′z̸hə rē, -z̸ho̵or ē)
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
- 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
Etymology: ME luxurie < OFr < L luxuria < luxus, extravagance, luxury, excess, prob. identical in orig. with luxus, dislocated: see luxate
adjective
characterized by luxury
luxury
n.
Indulgence of the senses, regardless of the cost
gratification, costliness, expensiveness, richness, idleness, leisure, luxuriousness, high-living, prodigality, epicureanism, sybaritism, hedonism, lavishness; see also enjoyment 2, indulgence 3.An indulgence beyond one's means
expensive rarity, extravagance, intemperance, immoderation, unrestraint, exorbitance, wastefulness, spree*, splurging*; see also excess 1, waste 1.
Converse of object
- understate: Eight bedrooms provide classic understated luxury with private balconies overlooking the lush gardens.
- afford: Simple survival is not a luxury afforded to many creatures for very long.
- detach: This lovely luxury detached Victorian villa is set in a peaceful part of Torquay with its own beautiful private.. .
- pamper: The opportunities range from royal banquets to the pampered luxury enjoyed in our private health clubs.
Adjective modifier
- unashamed: Gleneagles is a byword for unashamed luxury, unrivaled golf and leisure facilities and legendary hospitality.
- added: The chalet also boasts the added luxury of a sauna.
- unsurpassed: Glide in unsurpassed luxury through a rich tapestry of countries and cultures aboard the legendary Eastern and Oriental Express.
- sheer: Sheila's inn was sheer luxury compared to that!
- barefoot: This is a stunning, romantic island resort offering sophisticated barefoot luxury, surrounded by glorious natural beauty.
- opulent: Yet, despite its opulent luxury, the hotel has a disturbing history it omits to mention in its glossy brochures.
Modifies a noun
- villa: Villa in Lucca with pool Large luxury villa with 6 bedrooms for up to 12 people, staffed with Cook.
- apartment: At Vivian Villa your choice could be a room, a self catering studio or a luxury apartment for four people.
- hotel: Plans are under way to build a luxury hotel on the.. .
- yacht: He would succeed his father as head of the business and continue to enjoy a lifestyle of luxury yachts and holiday homes in Monaco.
- liner: Enchanted Isle Argentina, and her sister Brasil, were the last luxury liners to be built in the USA.
- cruise: The luxury cruise business adds 200 million pounds to the local economy every year.
Noun used with modifier
- bedroomed: Sleeps 4. Detached two bedroomed luxury bungalow of traditional Highland style.
- hawaii: Always awash cruise hawaii luxury in is the time.
- star: Mar Hall Hotel and Spa Mar Hall Hotel and Spa is a 5 star luxury hotel located just outside Glasgow.
- bedroom: Denia: 5 bedroom luxury villa with pool near Montgo National Reserve 2006: Good availability.
Thus fares the land, by luxury betrayed.
Every luxury was lavished on you ö atheism, breast- feeding, circumcision.
The ordinary 'horseless-carriage' is at present a luxury for the wealthy; and although the price will probably fall in the future, it will never, of course, come into as common use as the bicycle.
Love is like any other luxury.You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
Too manypass judgement on wartime decisions in the luxury of a peacetime environment.
He tried the luxury of doing good.
Thus first necessity invented stools, Convenience next suggested elbow-chairs, And luxury the accomplished sofa last.
For where money is the standard of everything, many vain, superfluous trades are bound to be carried on simply to satisfy luxuryand licentiousness.
I believe that style is the only real luxury that is really desirable.
The root of Evil, Avarice That damn'd ill-natur'd, baneful Vice, Was Slave to Prodigality, That noble Sin; whilst Luxury Employed a Million of the Poor, And odious Pride a Million more; Envy itself, and Vanity, Were Ministers of Industry; Their darling Folly, Fickleness, In Diet, Furniture and Dress That strange ridic'lous Vice, was made That very Wheel that turned theTrade.
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