Luxury - Wiktionary

English

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English Wikipedia has an article on:luxuryWikipedia

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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• (UK) IPA(key): /ˈlʌk.ʃə.ɹi/

• Audio (UK):

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• (US) IPA(key): /ˈlʌɡ.ʒə.ɹi/, /ˈlʌk.ʃə.ɹi/

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• Rhymes: -əɹi
• Hyphenation: lux‧u‧ry

Noun

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luxury (countable and uncountable, plural luxuries)

1. Very wealthy and comfortable surroundings; the state of being that they create. Synonyms: luxuriousness, luxe Antonyms: austerity, spartanness, penury, poverty Near-synonyms: splendor, grandeur, grandness, decadence
2. Something desirable but expensive and that one can live without. Antonyms: necessity, essential, essentials, basics
   • 1910, Emerson Hough, “A Lady in Company”, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:“[…] 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? […]”
   • 2020 December 15, Marianna Cerini, “Holiday gift guide: Ethical luxuries for conscientious shoppers”, in CNN‎[1]:And with Millennial and Gen Z consumers accounting for a growing proportion of spending, the luxury market is increasingly sensitive to the social and environmental causes they identify with. […] With all this in mind, here are CNN Style’s best small luxuries for the conscientious gift giver: […]
3. Something that is pleasant and desirable but not necessary in life (whether expensive or not). Antonyms: necessity, essential, essentials, basics
   • 1980 March 3, Antony Jay, Jonathan Lynn, “Official Secrets (Yes, Prime Minister)”, in Yes, Prime Minister, season 2, episode 2, spoken by Humphrey Appleby and Bernard Woolley (Nigel Hawthorne and Derek Fowlds):Sir Humphrey Appleby: Bernard, what do you want? / Bernard Woolley: I want to have a clear conscience. / […] / Sir Humphrey Appleby: When did you acquire this taste for luxuries (laugh track)?
   • 2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 68: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.
4. (obsolete) Lustfulness; sexual desire or attraction.
   • c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iv], page 51, column 2:Fie on sinnefull phantasie: Fie on Lust, and Luxurie:
5. (obsolete) Copulation; the act or action of sex.
   • c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii], page 258, column 1:Let not the Royall Bed of Denmark be / A Couch for Luxury and damned Incest.

Derived terms

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• antiluxury
• hard luxury
• lap of luxury
• luxurist
• luxury belief
• luxury good
• luxury tax
• nonluxury
• quiet luxury
• semiluxury
• soft luxury
• superluxury
• ultraluxury
• unluxury

Translations

[edit] very wealthy and comfortable surroundings

Arabic: رَفَاهِيَّة (ar) f (rafāhiyya), تَرَف m (taraf) Belarusian: раскоша f (raskóša) Bulgarian: разкош (bg) (razkoš), лукс (bg) m (luks) Catalan: luxe (ca) m Cherokee: ᎤᎪᏗᏗ (ugodidi) Chinese: Mandarin: 豪華 / 豪华 (zh) (háohuá) Esperanto: lukso (eo) Finnish: ylellisyys (fi), luksus (fi), loisto (fi) French: luxe (fr) m Galician: luxo (gl) m Georgian: ფუფუნება (pupuneba), განცხრომა (gancxroma) German: Luxus (de) m Greek: πολυτέλεια (el) f (polytéleia), χλιδή (el) f (chlidí) Ancient Greek: τρυφή f (truphḗ) Hebrew: פאר (he) (peér), שפע (he) (shéfa) Hungarian: luxus (hu) Indonesian: kemewahan (id) Irish: sómas m, ollmhaitheas m Italian: lusso (it) Japanese: 贅沢 (ja) (zeitaku) Kazakh: молшылық (molşylyq), люкс (lüks) Latin: luxus m Macedonian: ра́скош m (ráskoš), лу́ксуз m (lúksuz) Malagasy: please add this translation if you can Malayalam: സമൃദ്ധി (ml) (samr̥ddhi) Māori: hāneaneatanga Norwegian: Bokmål: luksus m Nynorsk: luksus m Persian: لوکس (fa) (luks), لاکچری (lâkčeri) Polish: luksus (pl) m Portuguese: luxo (pt) m Romanian: lux (ro) n Russian: ро́скошь (ru) (róskošʹ), люкс (ru) m (ljuks) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: ра́скош f, лу̀ксуз m Latin: ráskoš (sh) f, lùksuz (sh) m Spanish: lujo (es) m Swedish: lyx (sv) c Tamil: சொகுசு (ta) (cokucu) Turkish: lüks (tr), bolluk (tr)

something desirable but expensive

Arabic: تَرَف m (taraf) Bulgarian: лукс (bg) m (luks) Catalan: luxe (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Dutch: luxe (nl) m Finnish: ylellisyys (fi) French: luxe (fr) m Galician: luxoso m German: Luxus (de) m Greek: πολυτέλεια (el) f (polytéleia) Ancient Greek: τρυφή f (truphḗ) Hebrew: מותרות (he) (motarót), לוקסוס (luxus) Hungarian: luxus (hu) Italian: lusso (it) f Macedonian: лу́ксуз m (lúksuz), ра́скош m (ráskoš) Malagasy: please add this translation if you can Norwegian: Bokmål: luksusvare m or f Nynorsk: luksusvare f Polish: luksus (pl) m Portuguese: luxo (pt) m Romanian: lux (ro) n Russian: предме́т ро́скоши m (predmét róskoši) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: ра́скош f, лу̀ксуз m Latin: ráskoš (sh) f, lùksuz (sh) m Spanish: lujo (es) m Swedish: lyx (sv) c Tagalog: luho

something pleasant but not necessary in life

Arabic: كَمَالِيّ m (kamāliyy) Armenian: շռայլություն (hy) (šṙaylutʻyun) Catalan: luxe (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 奢侈 (zh) (shēchǐ) Esperanto: luksaĵo Finnish: ylellisyys (fi) French: luxe (fr) m German: Luxus (de) m Greek: πολυτέλεια (el) f (polytéleia) Hebrew: מותרות (he) (motarót) Hungarian: luxus (hu) Indonesian: kemewahan (id) Irish: só m Italian: lusso (it) Macedonian: ра́скош m (ráskoš), лу́ксуз m (lúksuz) Malay: kemewahan Malayalam: ആഡംബരം (ml) (āḍambaraṁ) Māori: hāneanea Norwegian: Bokmål: luksusvare m or f Nynorsk: luksusvare f Persian: لوکس (fa) (lus) Portuguese: luxo (pt) m Romanian: lux (ro) n Russian: ро́скошь (ru) (róskošʹ) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: ра́скош f, лу̀ксуз m Latin: ráskoš (sh) f, lùksuz (sh) m Spanish: lujo (es) m, capricho (es) m, extravagancia (es) f Swedish: lyx (sv) Tagalog: luho

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French: (please verify) luxe (fr) m Italian: (please verify) lusso (it) m Telugu: (please verify) విలాసం (te) (vilāsaṁ)

Adjective

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luxury (comparative more luxury, superlative most luxury)

1. Very expensive. Synonym: luxurious
2. Not essential but desirable and enjoyable and indulgent.
3. (automotive) Pertaining to the top-end market segment for mass production mass market vehicles, above the premium market segment.

Coordinate terms

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(automotive):

• premium
• economy

Translations

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Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Finnish: ylellinen (fi) Greek: πολυτελής (el) m or f (polytelís) Malay: mewah (ms) Māori: hāneanea Polish: luksusowy (pl) Swedish: lyxig (sv) Turkish: lüks (tr) Vietnamese: sự sang trọng

Related terms

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• luxe
• luxuriant
• luxuriate
• luxurious
• luxuriously

Further reading

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• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “luxury”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “luxury”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Middle English

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Noun

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luxury

1. alternative form of luxurie