luxury

Other forms of luxury

plural

luxuries·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about luxury

What does luxury mean?

luxury means "something that is an indulgence rather than a necessity". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in luxury?

luxury has 3 syllables: lux-u-ry. The stress falls on "lux". In IPA it is /ˈlʌɡʒɚi/.

What is another word for luxury?

Close synonyms include lavishness, sumptuosity, sumptuousness, luxuriousness, opulence. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is luxury a common word?

luxury is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.