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LUKSH-uh-ree/ˈlʌkʃəri/

Luxury is great comfort and expensive things (often uncountable); a luxury is something pleasant you do not strictly need. Luxurious is the adjective. Necessity is an opposite flavour. Housing: a spare room is a luxury in this city.

Meaning

Great comfort and expensive things; a luxury is something pleasant you do not need.

Examples

• “A spare room is a luxury in this city, not a given.”
• “Luxury goods are taxed differently from basic food, which is the uncountable-industry sense.”

Good to know

a luxury; luxury + noun (goods, hotel). Adjective: luxurious. Opposite flavour: a necessity. Cost-of-living essays. Not “luxuries” for the idea of comfort in general — use luxury.

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