Sumptuous Definition

sŭmpcho͝o-əs
adjective
Involving great expense; costly; lavish.
Webster's New World
Magnificent or splendid, as in furnishings, etc.
Webster's New World
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Origin of Sumptuous

  • From French somptueux, from Latin sumptuōsus, from sÅ«mptus (“cost, charge, expense"), perfect passive participle of sÅ«mō, sÅ«mere (“take").

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English from Old French sumptueux from Latin sūmptuōsus from sūmptus expense sumptuary

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Sumptuous Sentence Examples

  • A sumptuous banquet took place, followed by a distribution of doles and garlands.

  • His palace was more sumptuous than the temples of the gods, from which it was quite separate.

  • The staircase, the chapel and the theatre are especially sumptuous.

  • The later Rabbis wore most sumptuous apparel, and were crowned until the death of Eliezer ben Azarya.

  • Antioch, adorned with many sumptuous buildings, as the chief town of the provinces of Asia, became in point of size the third city of the empire and an eastern Rome.

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