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/

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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
   • 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: τρυφή f (truphḗ) Hebrew: פאר (he) (peér), שפע (he) (shéfa) Hungarian: luxus (hu) Indonesian: kemewahan (id) Irish: sómas m Italian: lusso (it) Japanese: 贅沢 (ja) (zeitaku) Latin: luxus m Macedonian: ра́скош m (ráskoš), лу́ксуз m (lúksuz) Malagasy: please add this translation if you can Malayalam: സമൃദ്ധി (ml) (samr̥ddhi) Maori: 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 Roman: 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: 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 Roman: 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) Maori: 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 Roman: 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) Maori: 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