S vs Lavish - What's the difference?
s | lavish |
The nineteenth letter of the .
voiceless alveolar fricative
Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.
Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type
Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur
Symbols for SI units
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Expending or bestowing profusely; profuse; prodigal.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8
, passage=The day was cool and snappy for August, and the Rise all green with a lavish nature. Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges over the cold trout-streams, the boards giving back the clatter of our horses' feet:
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Superabundant; excessive; as, lavish spirits.
* 1623 , (William Shakespeare), (Measure for Measure) Act 2 Scene 2
To expend or bestow with profusion; to use with prodigality; to squander; as, to lavish money or praise.
As a letter s
is the letter s with a.As an adjective lavish is
expending or bestowing profusely; profuse; prodigal.As a verb lavish is
to expend or bestow with profusion; to use with prodigality; to squander; as, to lavish money or praise.s
Translingual
{{Basic Latin character info, previous=r, next=t, image= (wikipedia s)Letter
Symbol
(wikipedia) (mul-symbol)See also
(Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=ยทยทยท , Character=S , Braille=? }}lavish
English
Alternative forms
* (l), (l), (l) (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. There was a great deal of them, lavish both in material and in workmanship.
- Let her haue needfull, but not lauish meanes