AMENITIES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does amenities mean? 

• AMENITIES (noun)
  The noun AMENITIES has 1 sense:

1. things that make you comfortable and at ease

  Familiarity information: AMENITIES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AMENITIES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Things that make you comfortable and at ease

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

amenities; comforts; conveniences; creature comforts

Context example:

all the comforts of home

Hypernyms ("amenities" is a kind of...):

bread and butter; keep; livelihood; living; support; sustenance (the financial means whereby one lives)

 Context examples 

But all amenities were wasted upon the angry German.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

By this time all the amenities and gentlenesses of the Southland had fallen away from the three people.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

The humanities and amenities of life had no attraction for him—its peaceful enjoyments no charm.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

There was no bar-keeper upon whom to call for drinks, no small boy to send around the corner for a can of beer and by means of that social fluid start the amenities of friendship flowing.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)