CONVENIENCES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does conveniences mean? 

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

1. things that make you comfortable and at ease

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONVENIENCES (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 ("conveniences" is a kind of...):

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

 Context examples 

It was in vain to represent to her that some conveniences, tea perhaps included, resulted from this objectionable practice.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

But beside all this, the bulk of our people supported themselves by furnishing the necessities or conveniences of life to the rich and to each other.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

I had gone camping but once in my life, and then I left the party almost at its start and returned to the comforts and conveniences of a roof.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Do you imagine it to be the consequence of an immediate commission from him, or that he may have sent only a general direction, an order indefinite as to time, to depend upon contingencies and conveniences?

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Elinor took no notice of this; and directing her attention to their visitor, endeavoured to support something like discourse with him, by talking of their present residence, its conveniences, &c. extorting from him occasional questions and remarks.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

I had as I before observed, one private pocket, which escaped their search, wherein there was a pair of spectacles (which I sometimes use for the weakness of mine eyes,) a pocket perspective, and some other little conveniences; which, being of no consequence to the emperor, I did not think myself bound in honour to discover, and I apprehended they might be lost or spoiled if I ventured them out of my possession.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

There were some hooks in the beams of the ceiling, the use of which I did not divine then; and some lockers and boxes and conveniences of that sort, which served for seats and eked out the chairs.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Two thousand a year without debt or drawback—except the little love-child, indeed; aye, I had forgot her; but she may be 'prenticed out at a small cost, and then what does it signify? Delaford is a nice place, I can tell you; exactly what I call a nice old fashioned place, full of comforts and conveniences; quite shut in with great garden walls that are covered with the best fruit-trees in the country; and such a mulberry tree in one corner! Lord! how Charlotte and I did stuff the only time we were there! Then, there is a dove-cote, some delightful stew-ponds, and a very pretty canal; and every thing, in short, that one could wish for; and, moreover, it is close to the church, and only a quarter of a mile from the turnpike-road, so 'tis never dull, for if you only go and sit up in an old yew arbour behind the house, you may see all the carriages that pass along.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Whereupon I enumerated as many sorts as came into my head, with the various methods of dressing them, which could not be done without sending vessels by sea to every part of the world, as well for liquors to drink as for sauces and innumerable other conveniences.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

He accompanied me into Mr. Wickfield's room, which was the shadow of its former self—having been divested of a variety of conveniences, for the accommodation of the new partner—and stood before the fire, warming his back, and shaving his chin with his bony hand, while Mr. Wickfield and I exchanged greetings.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)