LAVISH


Meaning of LAVISH in English

I. adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a lavish gift (= a large, impressive, or expensive gift )

She received lavish gifts of jewellery and clothes.

a lavish party (= one where a lot of money has been spent )

He threw lavish parties for his celebrity friends.

a lavish/extravagant lifestyle (= in which you buy or do expensive things )

How can he afford such a lavish lifestyle?

heap/lavish praise on sb (= praise them a lot )

Ireland's manager has heaped praise on his team.

lavish praise (= very high praise )

United’s captain received lavish praise from his manager.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

lifestyle

Emmett said in court that his lavish lifestyle came from businesses he ran selling second-hand cars and double-glazing.

party

The lavish party is still talked about today.

Held in a sprawling Phoenix convention center, the lavish party is big enough to accommodate four or five bands simultaneously.

Industry heavyweights routinely spend millions of dollars on extravagant booths and lavish parties .

praise

The instrument more than justifies your lavish praise and I am delighted with it in every respect.

Uncle Shim laid lavish praise on my parents for the quality of the food, the effort in preparation.

scale

At Kaiserslauten he built a royal palace of red stone on a lavish scale .

He had held his Christmas court at Talmont, north of La Rochelle, and distributed gifts on a lavish scale .

But the improver is into intellectual nourishment on a lavish scale .

King Edward visited several times when shooting parties and other entertaining took place on a lavish scale .

Several pounds of flesh Never before in history have the poor financed the rich on such a lavish scale .

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a lavish apartment

The restaurant has a lavish dessert menu.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

A lavish fete rings in the historic day.

Besides his lavish entertaining, he wore expensive gabardine suits and handmade shoes.

For much of his Mastership the stipend paid by the Company actually fell below the far from lavish £10 to only £9.

If Huffington is any model, Forbes's lavish spending itself may enhance his stature.

If you have to buy a customer with lavish entertainment, you might as well buy your way out of every problem.

Nevertheless, the stringent regimen that was normality for many - even in a lavish burg - was staggering back towards normal.

The path wound off into soiled twilight purples, lavish and darkly tangled, vanishing altogether after a few yards.

You can dish up lavish meals without doing anything more than popping a ready meal in the microwave.

II. verb

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

A parish as wealthy as Holy Trinity, he believed, should not be lavishing its resources on itself.

Allen apparently thinks little about lavishing some of his billions on companies that may or may not prove successful.

From then on, act as if you've never met her before, avoid the mundane and lavish her with compliments.

Local officials traditionally lavish entertainment on national officials who dole out money for public works and other local projects.

Now your son is lavishing upon the computer the attention he would give to any new, rewarding and particularly attractive toy.

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