luxuryとは意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Middle English luxurie, from Old French luxurie, from Latin luxuria (“rankness, luxury”), from luxus (“extravagance, luxury”).

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈlʌk.ʃə.ɹi/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈlʌɡʒəɹi/, /ˈlʌkʃəɹi/

名詞

luxury (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 luxuries)

1. Very wealthy and comfortable surroundings.
2. 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 639762314:

     “ […] 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? […] ”

3. 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.

同意語

• luxe

反意語

• (dispensable thing): necessity

形容詞

luxury (comparative more luxury, superlative most luxury)

1. very expensive
2. not essential but desirable and enjoyable and indulgent.
3. (automotive) Pertaining to the top-end market segment for mass production mass market vehicles, above the premium market segment.

等位語

(automotive):

• premium
• economy