Lucullan

adjective

lü-ˈkə-lən How to pronounce Lucullan (audio)
variants also Lucullian
Definition of Lucullannext
as in luxurious
showing obvious signs of wealth and comfort a Lucullan lifestyle that included the requisite mansion and yacht

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  1. luxurious
  2. deluxe
  3. lavish
  4. luxuriant
  5. Babylonian
Adjective
  • Check in here: After 26.2 grueling miles, rest up in the luxurious Five-Star Shangri-La Vancouver.
    Forbes Travel Guide, Forbes, 12 Jan. 2025
  • The former private residence now offers seven luxurious suites and four ballrooms, which host some of the city’s most notable events, with over 150 additional guest rooms set in the hotel’s contemporary tower.
    Michaela Trimble, Vogue, 12 Jan. 2025
Definition of luxurious
Adjective
  • To make room for a primary suite that occupies the second level, Taft-Gersten added a dormer at the back of the house to accommodate ample closets, a sitting area, and a deluxe bathroom.
    Stacie Stukin, Architectural Digest, 30 Dec. 2024
  • Following La Pantera Negra and its deluxe version, both released this year, Myke Towers surprises with a third album dubbed Lyke Miike.
    Isabela Raygoza, Billboard, 27 Dec. 2024
Definition of deluxe
Adjective
  • Through the 18th and into the 19th centuries, the Classical Revival house style represented a turn to simplicity after the lavish ornamentation of previous periods like French Rococo, and that clean austerity still has appeal today.
    Lauren Gallow, Architectural Digest, 10 Jan. 2025
  • Capital Public Radio has sued its former general manager, accusing him of stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from the station to fund a lofty lifestyle filled with lavish overseas trips, renovate his home residence, pay his children’s university tuition and more.
    Ishani Desai, Sacramento Bee, 10 Jan. 2025
Definition of lavish
Adjective
  • One Madison’s slate of attractions includes a public gym (run by Chelsea Piers Fitness) so spacious and luxuriant that members might be tempted to move in.
    Justin Davidson, Curbed, 21 Nov. 2024
  • This was a man who had lengthy experience in surviving far from luxuriant conditions, firstly from his time living with the destitute of Paris and London as part of his first successful non-fiction volume and secondly as a fighter for the Republican cause in the Spanish Civil War.
    Rob Crossan, JSTOR Daily, 15 Nov. 2024
Definition of luxuriant
Adjective
  • The Code of Hammurabi, a Babylonian legal code, according to History, contains one of the earliest beliefs that Friday the 13th is unlucky because a 13th law was omitted from its list of legal rules.
    Zach Bradshaw, The Arizona Republic, 13 Dec. 2024
  • The application includes the complete Babylonian Talmud, the five books of the Torah, the six books of the Mishnah and dozens of other Jewish books and writings.
    Daniel Edelson, Sun Sentinel, 22 Feb. 2024
Definition of Babylonian
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