luxury - luxurious — ◊ luxury Luxury is great comfort among beautiful and expensive surroundings. We lived in great luxury. ...a life of luxury. Luxury is often used as an adjective in front of a noun. You use it to talk about a class of comfortable, expensive things … Useful english dictionary
luxury — noun 1 comfort and pleasure ADJECTIVE ▪ great, pure, sheer ▪ It was sheer luxury to step into a hot bath. ▪ ultimate ▪ the ultimate luxury of a sauna in your own home … Collocations dictionary
luxury — noun 1 (U) very great comfort and pleasure, such as you get from expensive food, beautiful houses, cars etc: Caviar for breakfast! I was not used to such luxury. | a life of luxury: They led a life of luxury, in a huge house in the countryside. | … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
luxury — Synonyms and related words: Babylonian splendor, Cyrenaic hedonism, Cyrenaicism, Easy Street, affluence, amenity, amusement, animal pleasure, appeal, appealingness, appetite, appetitiveness, attractiveness, bed of roses, bedizenment, bewitchment … Moby Thesaurus
Life & Luxury Appartements by Easy Holiday Appartements — (Залбах,Австрия) Категория отеля: Адрес: Un … Каталог отелей
Luxury Briefing — is a magazine that was launched in 1996 by James Ogilvy, the son of Princess Alexandra cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=James Ogilvy, Princess Alexandra s son, talks to Cassandra Jardine about his life as a junior royal.… … Wikipedia
Life & Leisure Luxury Guesthouse & Apartments — (Стелленбос,Южно Африканская Республика) Категория отеля: 4 звездочный отель … Каталог отелей
Luxury — Lux u*ry, n.; pl. {Luxuries}. [L. luxuria, fr. luxus: cf. F. luxure.] 1. A free indulgence in costly food, dress, furniture, or anything expensive which gratifies the appetites or tastes. [1913 Webster] Riches expose a man to pride and luxury.… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
luxury — [luk′shə rē, luk′shoor ē; lug′zhə rē, lug′zhoor ē] n. pl. luxuries [ME luxurie < OFr < L luxuria < luxus, extravagance, luxury, excess, prob. identical in orig. with luxus, dislocated: see LUXATE] 1. the use and enjoyment of the best and … English World dictionary
luxury — (n.) c.1300, sexual intercourse; mid 14c., lasciviousness, sinful self indulgence, from O.Fr. luxurie debauchery, dissoluteness, lust (Mod.Fr. luxure), from L. luxuria excess, luxury, extravagance, profusion; delicacy (Cf. Sp. lujuria, It.… … Etymology dictionary
