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Lap Of Luxury

Definition: Lap Of Luxury

Lap Of Luxury

Noun

1. In conditions of wealth and comfort; "he was raised in the lap of luxury".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms within Context: Lap Of Luxury

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Inactivity

Take it easy, take things as they come; lead an easy life, vegetate, swim with the stream, eat the bread of idleness; loll in the lap of luxury, loll in the lap of indolence; waste time, consume time, kill time, lose time; burn daylight, waste the precious hours.

Intemperance

Paphian, Epicurean, Sybaritical; bred in the lap of luxury, nursed in the lap of luxury; indulged, pampered; full-fed, high-fed.

Noun: intemperance; sensuality, animalism, carnality; tragalism; pleasure; effeminacy, silkiness; luxury, luxuriousness; lap of pleasure, lap of luxury; free living.

Physical Pleasure

Noun: pleasure; physical pleasure, sensual pleasure, sensuous pleasure; bodily enjoyment, animal gratification, hedonism, sensuality; luxuriousness. Adjective: dissipation, round of pleasure, titillation, gusto, creature comforts, comfort, ease; pillow. (support); luxury, lap of luxury; purple and fine linen; bed of downs, bed of roses; velvet, clover; cup of Circe. (intemperance).

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Modern Usage: Lap Of Luxury

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Lap of Luxury (1994)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Lap Of Luxury

DomainTitle

Theater & Movies

  • Biography:Ivana Trump - Lap of Luxury (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Lap Of Luxury

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

lap of luxury

3
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Modern Translation: Lap Of Luxury

Language Translations for "lap of luxury"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

von Luxus umgeben (in the lap of luxury). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

jólétben tobzódva (in the lap of luxury), jólétben (in the lap of luxury). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

aplay ofay uxurylay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Lap Of Luxury

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-f-l-l-o-p-r-u-u-x-y"

-4 letters: payroll, playful.

-5 letters: floral, floury, foully, lapful, luxury, orally, pallor, plural, pyrola.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Modern
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Bibliography


  

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