luxuries (noun)

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• ascetic — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ strictly self disciplined and avoiding any sensory pleasures or luxuries. ► NOUN ▪ an ascetic person. DERIVATIVES ascetically adverb asceticism noun. ORIGIN from Greek ask t s monk , from askein …   English terms dictionary

• ascetically — ascetic ► ADJECTIVE ▪ strictly self disciplined and avoiding any sensory pleasures or luxuries. ► NOUN ▪ an ascetic person. DERIVATIVES ascetically adverb asceticism noun. ORIGIN from Greek ask t s monk , from askein …   English terms dictionary

• asceticism — ascetic ► ADJECTIVE ▪ strictly self disciplined and avoiding any sensory pleasures or luxuries. ► NOUN ▪ an ascetic person. DERIVATIVES ascetically adverb asceticism noun. ORIGIN from Greek ask t s monk , from askein …   English terms dictionary

• luxury — noun 1 comfort and pleasure ADJECTIVE ▪ great, pure, sheer ▪ It was sheer luxury to step into a hot bath. ▪ ultimate ▪ the ultimate luxury of a sauna in your own home …   Collocations dictionary

• old age — noun a late time of life (Freq. 1) old age is not for sissies he s showing his years age hasn t slowed him down at all a beard white with eld on the brink of geezerhood • Syn: ↑years, ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

• conspicuous consumption — noun buying expensive services and products in order to flaunt your wealth • Hypernyms: ↑consumption, ↑economic consumption, ↑usance, ↑use, ↑use of goods and services * * * noun : lavish or wasteful spending regarded as establishing or enhancing… …   Useful english dictionary

• good life — noun 1. /gʊd ˈlaɪf/ (say good luyf) a life led according to religious laws and moral conventions. 2. /ˈgʊd laɪf/ (say good luyf) the good life, a life filled with material luxuries and comfort. –good liver, noun …  

• good life — noun 1. a. : a life lived in accordance with certain moral laws : a life of virtue most men will not attain the good life, and … for them it is necessary to institute the laws Walter Lippmann felt most sincerely that they were trying to lead the… …   Useful english dictionary

• sin tax — noun : a tax on substances or activities traditionally considered sinful (as tobacco, liquor, or gambling) * * * Informal. a tax levied on cigarettes, liquor, gambling, or other things considered neither luxuries nor necessities. [1970 75] * * *… …   Useful english dictionary

• luxury — noun (plural ries) Etymology: Middle English luxurie, from Anglo French luxorie, from Latin luxuria rankness, luxury, excess; akin to Latin luxus luxury, excess Date: 14th century 1. archaic lechery, lust 2. a condition of abundance or great ease …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• slush fund — noun Date: 1839 1. a fund raised from the sale of refuse to obtain small luxuries or pleasures for a warship s crew 2. a fund for bribing public officials or carrying on corruptive propaganda 3. an unregulated fund often used for illicit purposes …   New Collegiate Dictionary