luxury
Etymology
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Etymology
From Middle English luxurie, from Old French luxurie, from Latin luxuria, from luxus.
Pronunciation Nounluxury
- Very wealthy and comfortable surroundings.
- Something desirable but expensive.
- 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? […] ”
- Something that is pleasant but not necessary in life.
- (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:
- (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.
- (antonym(s) of “dispensable thing”): necessity
- French: luxe
- German: Luxus
- Italian: lusso
- Portuguese: luxo
- Russian: ро́скошь
- Spanish: lujo, capricho, extravagancia
luxury
- Very expensive.
- Not essential but desirable and enjoyable and indulgent.
- (automotive) Pertaining to the top-end market segment for mass production mass market vehicles, above the premium market segment.
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