"extravagance" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ɪkˈstɹævəɡəns/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vininn126-extravagance.wav [US] Forms: extravagances [plural]
Etymology: Borrowed from French extravagance, from Medieval Latin extra + vagor (“to wander”). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|fr|extravagance}} French extravagance, {{der|en|ML.|extra}} Medieval Latin extra, {{m|la|vagor|t=to wander}} vagor (“to wander”) Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} extravagance (countable and uncountable, plural extravagances)
  1. Excessive or superfluous expenditure of money. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (excessive expenditure): إِسْرَاف (ʔisrāf) [masculine] (Arabic), تَبْذِير (tabḏīr) [masculine] (Arabic), سَرَف (saraf) [masculine] (Arabic), разточителство (raztočitelstvo) [neuter] (Bulgarian), tuhlailu (Finnish), χλιδή (chlidí) [feminine] (Greek), υπερβολή (ypervolí) [feminine] (Greek), anchaitheamh [masculine] (Irish), 贅沢 (zeitaku) (alt: ぜいたく) (Japanese), prōdigentia [feminine] (Latin), ولخرجی (velxarji) (Persian), ekstrawagancja [feminine] (Polish), extravaganță (Romanian), расточительство (rastočitelʹstvo) [neuter] (Russian), транжирство (tranžirstvo) [neuter] (Russian), ana-caitheamh [masculine] (Scottish Gaelic)
    Sense id: en-extravagance-en-noun-yuBB9gB2 Disambiguation of 'excessive expenditure': 76 2 22
  2. Prodigality, as of anger, love, expression, imagination, or demands. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (prodigality): чудатост (čudatost) [feminine] (Bulgarian), extravagància [feminine] (Catalan), buitensporigheid [feminine] (Dutch), ylenpalttisuus (Finnish), kawaw (Ivatan), risipă [feminine] (Romanian), ana-caitheamh [masculine] (Scottish Gaelic), extravagancia [feminine] (Spanish), kabulagsakan (Tagalog)
    Sense id: en-extravagance-en-noun-ySpzJF91 Disambiguation of 'prodigality': 1 99 1
  3. Something extravagant; something done out of extravagance. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-extravagance-en-noun-hAQW7Utn Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 27 13 60
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: lavishness, profusion, wildness, irregularity, excess, prodigality, waste, unreasonableness, recklessness Related terms: extravagancies, extravagancy, extravagantly, extravaganza, extravagate, extravagation

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      "code": "ivv",
      "lang": "Ivatan",
      "sense": "prodigality",
      "word": "kawaw"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "prodigality",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "risipă"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "prodigality",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ana-caitheamh"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "prodigality",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "extravagancia"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "prodigality",
      "word": "kabulagsakan"
    }
  ],
  "word": "extravagance"
}

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