luxury

«luxury» in Mova's school dictionary: great comfort and expensive, beautiful things — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (luxury; a luxury, luxuries); adjective use (luxury hotel)

meaning for a pupil

1) Luxury is great comfort and expensive, beautiful things. tree →

2) A luxury is something nice that you do not really need, like expensive chocolate or a holiday. tree →

3) As an adjective: expensive and comfortable, as in «a luxury car». tree →

sense in the lessons

Used in everyday life, shopping, adverts and lessons on needs and wants. Phrases: «live in luxury», «a little luxury», «luxury hotel», «luxury goods». In money lessons, luxuries are «wants», not «needs».

examples

• The hotel was full of luxury. tree →
• A hot bath is my little luxury. tree →
• Food is a need, but a games console is a luxury. tree →
• The film star lived in luxury. tree →
• They stayed in a luxury cabin by the lake. tree →
• Holidays abroad are a luxury for many families. tree →
• They were a rich, noble family, born in affluence and nurtured in luxury. tree →

note

Plural: luxuries. Adjective: luxurious. Pronounced «LUK-shuh-ree» or «LUG-zhuh-ree». In budgeting: pay for needs first, then luxuries.

In the corpora

• The Rat jokes about the missing luxuries and comes back from the cellar with bottles of beer.
• Luxury is not seemly for a fool; much less for a servant to have rule over princes.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «luxury» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.