Due to their high market price , most gemstones , such as diamonds , for example, are widely associated with luxury
Noun
luxury (countable and uncountable , plural luxuries )
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.
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.
( 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.
Antonyms
( antonym(s) of “ dispensable thing ” ) : necessity
Translations
very wealthy and comfortable surroundings
Belarusian: раскоша f ( raskóša )
Bulgarian: разкош (bg) ( razkoš ) , лукс (bg) m ( luks )
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 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
Turkish: lüks (tr) , bolluk (tr)
something desirable but expensive
something pleasant but not necessary in life
Translations to be checked
Adjective
luxury (comparative more luxury , superlative most 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.
Coordinate terms
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