luxury

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. Something inessential but conducive to pleasure and comfort.
2. n. Something expensive or hard to obtain.
3. n. Sumptuous living or surroundings: lives in luxury.
4. adj. Providing luxury: a luxury car.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. Luxuriance; exuberance of growth.
2. n. A free or extravagant indulgence in pleasure, as of the table; voluptuousness in the gratification of any appetite; also, the free expenditure of wealth for the gratification of one's own desires, as in costly dress and equipage.
3. n. That which is delightful to the senses, the feelings, etc.; especially, that which gratifies a nice and fastidious appetite or taste; a dainty: as, a house filled with luxuries; the luxuries of the table.
4. n. Exuberant enjoyment; complete gratification or satisfaction, either physical or intellectual.
5. n. Lust; lewd desire; lasciviousness; indulgence in lust.
6. n. Synonyms and Epicurism, effeminacy, sensuality, delicacy, gratification, pleasure, enjoyment, delight. See luxurious.

Wiktionary

1. n. very wealthy and comfortable surroundings.
2. n. something desirable but expensive.
3. n. something very pleasant but not really needed in life.
4. adj. very expensive

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A free indulgence in costly food, dress, furniture, or anything expensive which gratifies the appetites or tastes.
2. n. Anything which pleases the senses, is not necessary for life, and is also costly, or difficult to obtain; an expensive rarity; Contrasted to necessity.
3. n. obsolete Lechery; lust.
4. n. obsolete Luxuriance; exuberance.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. the quality possessed by something that is excessively expensive
2. n. wealth as evidenced by sumptuous living
3. n. something that is an indulgence rather than a necessity