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extravagance
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French extravagance, from Medieval Latin extra + vagor (“to wander”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?k?st?æv???ns/
- Hyphenation: ex?trav?a?gance
Noun
extravagance (countable and uncountable, plural extravagances)
- Excessive or superfluous expenditure of money.
- Prodigality, as of anger, love, expression, imagination, or demands.
- A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; as, again, the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire. In fact, that arm-chair had been an extravagance of Mrs. Bunting. She had wanted her husband to be comfortable after the day's work was done, and she had paid thirty-seven shillings for the chair.
Synonyms
Antonyms
- frugality
- economize
- moderation
Related terms
Translations
French
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -??s
Noun
extravagance f (plural extravagances)
- extravagance
- 1837 Louis Viardot, L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manchefr.Wikisource, translation of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Chapter I:
- Sa curiosité et son extravagance arrivèrent à ce point qu’il vendit plusieurs arpents de bonnes terres à labourer pour acheter des livres de chevalerie à lire.
- His curiosity and his extravagance came to the point that he sold several arpents of good working land to buy books of chivalry to read.
- Sa curiosité et son extravagance arrivèrent à ce point qu’il vendit plusieurs arpents de bonnes terres à labourer pour acheter des livres de chevalerie à lire.
- 1837 Louis Viardot, L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manchefr.Wikisource, translation of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Chapter I:
Related terms
- extravagant
- extravagamment
Further reading
- “extravagance” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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extravagant
English
Etymology
From Old French and French extravagant, from Medieval Latin extravagans, past participle of extravagari (“to wander beyond”), from Latin extra (“beyond”) + vagari (“to wander, stray”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?k?st?æv???nt/
Adjective
extravagant (comparative more extravagant, superlative most extravagant)
- Exceeding the bounds of something; roving; hence, foreign.
- Extreme; wild; excessive; unrestrained.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:excessive
- There appears something nobly wild and extravagant in great natural geniuses.
- Exorbitant.
- Profuse in expenditure; prodigal; wasteful.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Bancroft to this entry?)
Related terms
- vagabond
- extravagance
- extravagation
Translations
Further reading
- extravagant in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- extravagant in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Catalan
Etymology
Medieval Latin extravagans
Pronunciation
- (Balearic) IPA(key): /?ks.t??.v???ant/
- (Central) IPA(key): /?ks.t??.b???an/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /eks.t?a.va??ant/
Adjective
extravagant (feminine extravaganta, masculine plural extravagants, feminine plural extravagantes)
- extravagant
Further reading
- “extravagant” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
- “extravagant” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “extravagant” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
French
Etymology
Medieval Latin extravagans
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?k.st?a.va.???/
Adjective
extravagant (feminine singular extravagante, masculine plural extravagants, feminine plural extravagantes)
- extravagant
Derived terms
- extravagamment
Related terms
- extravagance
Further reading
- “extravagant” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
German
Etymology
From French extravagant.
Pronunciation
Adjective
extravagant (comparative extravaganter, superlative am extravagantesten)
- extravagant
Declension
Related terms
- Extravaganz
Further reading
- “extravagant” in Duden online
Romanian
Etymology
From French extravagant.
Adjective
extravagant m or n (feminine singular extravagant?, masculine plural extravagan?i, feminine and neuter plural extravagante)
- extravagant
Declension
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