luxury
Syllables: lux·u·ryUK/ˈlʌk.ʃə.ɹi/
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Northern England/ˈlʊk.ʃə.ɹi/
luxury noun: very wealthy and comfortable surroundings; the state of being that they create.
Noun
luxury (countable and uncountable, plural luxuries)
- Very wealthy and comfortable surroundings; the state of being that they create.
- Near-synonyms: splendor, grandeur, grandness, decadence
- Antonyms:
- austerity, spartanness, penury, poverty
- Something desirable but expensive and that one can live without.
- “[…] 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? […]”1910, Emerson Hough, “A Lady in Company”, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC
- 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: […]2020 December 15, Marianna Cerini, “Holiday gift guide: Ethical luxuries for conscientious shoppers”, in CNN
- Antonyms:
- necessity, essential, essentials, basics
- Something that is pleasant and desirable but not necessary in life (whether expensive or not).
- 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)?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...
- 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.2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 68
- Antonyms:
- necessity, essential, essentials, basics
- Lustfulness; sexual desire or attraction.
- Fie on sinnefull phantasie: Fie on Lust, and Luxurie: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]...
- Copulation; the act or action of sex.
- Let not the Royall Bed of Denmark be / A Couch for Luxury and damned Incest.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...
Adjective
luxury (comparative more luxury, superlative most luxury)
luxury meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
luxury in Hindi
- luxury, opulence
- विलासिता vilāsitā, नवाबी navābī
luxury in Tamil
- very wealthy and comfortable surroundings
- சொகுசு cokucu
luxury in Marathi
- luxury
- चैन cain
luxury in Urdu
- luxury, pleasure, delight
- عیش 'aiś
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- luxury in Bengali
- বিলাসিতা bilaśita
- luxury in Telugu
- లగ్జరీ
- luxury in Malayalam
- സമൃദ്ധി samr̥ddhi, ആഡംബരം āḍambaraṁ
- luxury in Kannada
- ಸುಖಭೋಗ, ಸುಖಸಾಧನ, ಭೋಗಸಾಮಗ್ರಿ, ಭೋಗವಸ್ತು
- luxury in Punjabi
- ਲਗਜ਼ਰੀ
- luxury in Gujarati
- વૈભવી, લક્ઝરી
- luxury in Odia
- ବିଳାସ
- luxury in Nepali
- विलासिता, विलासी, विलासितापूर्ण
- luxury in Tagalog
- luho
- luxury in Arabic
- رَفَاهِيَّة rafāhiyya, تَرَف taraf, كَمَالِيّ kamāliyy
- luxury in Malay
- kemewahan, mewah
- luxury in Indonesian
- kemewahan
- luxury in Persian
- لوکس luks, لاکچری lâkčeri
- luxury in Vietnamese
- sự sang trọng
Examples of luxury in a sentence
- Being a person of slender means, he was unable to afford any luxuries.
- His attempt to make money by importing luxury cars backfired horribly when fuel prices tripled.
- A live-in maid is a true luxury, but even a maid once a week is great.
Synonyms of luxury
Antonyms
Forms of luxury
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | luxuries |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more luxury |
| superlative | most luxury |
Origin of luxury
From Middle English luxurie, from Old French luxurie, from Latin luxuria (“rankness, luxury”), from luxus (“extravagance, luxury”).
Words formed from luxury
Phrases with luxury
Questions about luxury
- What does luxury mean?
- Luxury means very wealthy and comfortable surroundings; the state of being that they create.
- What is luxury in Hindi?
- Luxury in Hindi is विलासिता (vilāsitā), नवाबी (navābī). See Luxury meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is luxury?
- Luxury can be a noun or an adjective.
- How do you pronounce luxury?
- Luxury is pronounced /ˈlʌk.ʃə.ɹi/ (UK).
- What is the plural of luxury?
- The plural of luxury is luxuries.
Words near luxury in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: luxury (page history and authors); नवाबी (Hindi) (page history and authors); चैन (Marathi) (page history and authors); عیش (Urdu) (page history and authors); বিলাসিতা (Bengali) (page history and authors); luxury (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); luxury (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); luxury (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); luxury (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); luxury (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); luxury (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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