Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Particularly elegant and luxurious; sumptuous: deluxe accommodations; a de luxe automobile.
- adv. In an elegant and luxurious manner; sumptuously: traveling deluxe.
Wiktionary
- adj. Being very fine in quality or luxurious.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. impressively expensive; notably exceeding typical price or quality.
- adj. especially elegant and sumptuous; of the highest quality.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. elegant and sumptuous
- adj. elegant and sumptuous
- adj. rich and superior in quality
Etymologies
- From French de luxe ("of luxury"), from Latin luxus ("excess"). (Wiktionary)
- French de luxe, of luxury : de, of + luxe, luxury. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
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“Four-day, three-night stay at Cheeca Lodge & Spa in deluxe resort-view room for two people, including breakfast for three days.”
“Brand new and packaged in deluxe clam shell packaging.”
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“(800-223-1818.) * Camino Real Hotels offer 3 to 7 nights Honeymoon Package in deluxe room, daily breakfast buffet, champagne/gift, one dinner with wine for $404-1443 per room.”
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“For example, the quintessentially French luxury item, champagne, is only in gauche instances redundantly characterized as deluxe.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘deluxe’.
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seventhspice's Words
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2008 Wordlist
Hopefully, I'll be using this site for more than one year. It will be fun then to look back and see what new words I found worthy of notice in any given year.
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adjectives
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French Spelling Bee List
just putting some words on here for other peoples use..............and mine
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The best words
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valentine's Words
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favorites
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momoftwoxx's Words
deluxe, montage, macabre, pedantic, onomatopoeia, ellipsis, kumquat
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