luxury
luxury is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 3 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.Anything which pleases the senses, and is also costly, or difficult to obtain; an expensive rarity; as, silks, jewels, and rare fruits are luxuries; in some countries ice is a great luxury. He cut the side of a rock for a garden, and, by laying on it earth, furnished out a kind of luxury for a hermit. Addison.
- 2.Lechery; lust. [Obs.] Shak. Luxury is in wine and drunkenness. Chaucer.
- 3.Luxuriance; exuberance. [Obs.] Bacon.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Synonyms (Webster's 1913)
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- agreeable
- and
- animal
- bask
- bed
- bodily
- bonne
- bouche
- clover
- comfort
- comfortable
- cosy
- creature
- cup
- dainty
- dissipation
- drink
- ease
- eat
- enjoy
- enjoyment
- experience
- fat
- feast
- feel
- fine
- float
- give
- gloat
- gratification
- gusto
- happiness
- hedonism
- intemperance
- land
- lap
- linen
- live
- luxuriate
- luxurious
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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