Amenity
noun
Something that makes a place comfortable or easy to live in.
The hotel has many amenities such as a pool, a gym, and a hot tub.
Often appears as...
- local amenities
- hotel amenities
noun
An agreeable manner or politeness.
He treated his guests with the proper amenity
Often appears as...
- civil amenity
- social amenity
Usage tips
Formal, Approving
Literary
noun
Something that makes a place comfortable or easy to live in.
The hotel has many amenities such as a pool, a gym, and a hot tub.
Often appears as...
- local amenities
- hotel amenities
noun
An agreeable manner or politeness.
He treated his guests with the proper amenity
Often appears as...
- civil amenity
- social amenity
Usage tips
Formal, Approving
Literary
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Comfort
Focus on facilities that offer physical comfort or convenience in a specific location.
This apartment's amenities include a dishwasher and central air conditioning.
Pro Tip 2/3Quality Indicator
'Amenity' often indicates the quality of a place, with more amenities implying higher standards.
Luxury homes boast amenities like home cinemas and wine cellars.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Personal Items
Amenities refer to communal or shared features, not items owned personally.
Guests are welcome to use the barbecue pit; it's one of the communal amenities.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Comfort
Focus on facilities that offer physical comfort or convenience in a specific location.
This apartment's amenities include a dishwasher and central air conditioning.
Pro Tip 2/3Quality Indicator
'Amenity' often indicates the quality of a place, with more amenities implying higher standards.
Luxury homes boast amenities like home cinemas and wine cellars.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Personal Items
Amenities refer to communal or shared features, not items owned personally.
Guests are welcome to use the barbecue pit; it's one of the communal amenities.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Comfort
Focus on facilities that offer physical comfort or convenience in a specific location.
This apartment's amenities include a dishwasher and central air conditioning.
Pro Tip 2/3Quality Indicator
'Amenity' often indicates the quality of a place, with more amenities implying higher standards.
Luxury homes boast amenities like home cinemas and wine cellars.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Personal Items
Amenities refer to communal or shared features, not items owned personally.
Guests are welcome to use the barbecue pit; it's one of the communal amenities.
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Video examples
Blood, concrete, and...
With no infrastructure, scarce supplies, and little protection from the elements, several residents died of heatstroke. So to better house workers, the government designed and built the still thriving Boulder City, complete with numerous amenities, including a state-of-the-art hospital. Before construction on the dam could begin,
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James Kunstler: How bad...
is this idea that we now have to have an antidote to the industrial city, which is going to be life in the country for everybody. And that starts to be delivered in the form of the railroad the country villa along the railroad line, which allows people to enjoy the amenity of the city,
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Toni Griffin: A new...
and transforming landscape into much more productive uses, so that it could be used for storm water management, for example, by using surface lakes and retention ponds, that created neighborhood amenities, places of recreation, and actually helped to elevate adjacent property levels.
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How "baby bonds" could...
Wealthier families are better positioned to finance an elite, independent school and college education, access capital to start a business, finance expensive medical procedures, reside in neighborhoods with higher amenities, exert political influence through campaign finance,
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Selling Survival:...
this has all the amenities of a small apartment you've got your frigerator microwave big-screen TV leather couch plenty of counters stay down here for the rest of your life until the food and water runs introduction to bunker number one check
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Why the buildings of the...
It's about a new kind of public amenity for the city, a place to gather and read and share. So how is it possible that in the same year, in the same country, two buildings, both called libraries, look so completely different?
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The energy Africa needs...
the world is looking at Africa in a completely contradictory way. On one side, it wants us to grow, to emerge from abject poverty, to build a middle class, to own cars and air conditioners and other modern amenities
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Climb Ancient Temples in...
swallowtail butterflies was collecting minerals from the mud in a behavior called puddling finally I arrived at caracol the site was lush and peaceful with none of the typical tourist amenities like a gift shop or
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A New Understanding of...
From our very first history lessons, we're taught to believe that our modern world, with all of its advantages and amenities, modern health care, space travel, all the things that are good and exciting,
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A Big Cat Wild Kill & a...
even the basic amenities they needed to survive filming the Snow Leopard have been a high point of my life responding to people in need and they are my people I mean how could you ignore that
Video examples
Blood, concrete, and...
With no infrastructure, scarce supplies, and little protection from the elements, several residents died of heatstroke. So to better house workers, the government designed and built the still thriving Boulder City, complete with numerous amenities, including a state-of-the-art hospital. Before construction on the dam could begin,
Video examples
James Kunstler: How bad...
is this idea that we now have to have an antidote to the industrial city, which is going to be life in the country for everybody. And that starts to be delivered in the form of the railroad the country villa along the railroad line, which allows people to enjoy the amenity of the city,
Video examples
Toni Griffin: A new...
and transforming landscape into much more productive uses, so that it could be used for storm water management, for example, by using surface lakes and retention ponds, that created neighborhood amenities, places of recreation, and actually helped to elevate adjacent property levels.
Video examples
How "baby bonds" could...
Wealthier families are better positioned to finance an elite, independent school and college education, access capital to start a business, finance expensive medical procedures, reside in neighborhoods with higher amenities, exert political influence through campaign finance,
Video examples
Selling Survival:...
this has all the amenities of a small apartment you've got your frigerator microwave big-screen TV leather couch plenty of counters stay down here for the rest of your life until the food and water runs introduction to bunker number one check
Video examples
Why the buildings of the...
It's about a new kind of public amenity for the city, a place to gather and read and share. So how is it possible that in the same year, in the same country, two buildings, both called libraries, look so completely different?
Video examples
The energy Africa needs...
the world is looking at Africa in a completely contradictory way. On one side, it wants us to grow, to emerge from abject poverty, to build a middle class, to own cars and air conditioners and other modern amenities
Video examples
Climb Ancient Temples in...
swallowtail butterflies was collecting minerals from the mud in a behavior called puddling finally I arrived at caracol the site was lush and peaceful with none of the typical tourist amenities like a gift shop or
Video examples
A New Understanding of...
From our very first history lessons, we're taught to believe that our modern world, with all of its advantages and amenities, modern health care, space travel, all the things that are good and exciting,
Video examples
A Big Cat Wild Kill & a...
even the basic amenities they needed to survive filming the Snow Leopard have been a high point of my life responding to people in need and they are my people I mean how could you ignore that
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Quote examples
Eric Trump
American Businessman
For the Trump brand name, when we build, we want only the best buildings in the world. We travel a lot to see real estate projects worldwide, and we always study what can be done better. There's no question about it: a Trump Tower has to have the very best quality, amenities and facilities. People want that ultra-luxurious lifestyle.
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Guy Standing
English Actor
Using political power, the elite can induce local authorities to facilitate enclosure and privatisation of land, water, and other hitherto public amenities. And they can pressurise public administrations to cut taxes, reducing financial resources for maintaining the remaining commons.
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Karol G
Colombian Musician
When I go on trips, I like to have everything in one place. Someone to be in charge of the food, someone to keep things organized, and someone to attend to us. I need the house to be awesome, by the water, with all the amenities I need.
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Gerard Arpey
American Businessman
Second, we have to make the most of the strengths we have, the amenities that many of our competitors cannot replicate. But again, those advantages won't mean much if we don't do a great job with the basics of our business.
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Sanjaya Baru
Indian Public Servant
Every university has its problems. The issues range from lack of amenities, plagiarism, poor quality research, sexual harassment, faculty moonlighting, and faulty and biased recruitment.
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James B. Stewart
American Journalist
My experience bears out an adage about airlines: People almost always opt for convenience and price, even while complaining loudly about crowded planes and a dearth of amenities.
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Mahatma Gandhi
Indian Leader
To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.
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Gita Gopinath
Indian Economist
The awareness has increased about the need to increase womenwomen participation in the workplace, but there are no amenities to assure that.
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Robert Reich
American Economist
Universities have to tame their budgets, especially for student amenities that have nothing to do with education.
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John Naisbitt
American Businessman
In an information society, education is no mere amenity; it is the prime tool for growing people and profits.
Quote examples
Eric Trump
American Businessman
For the Trump brand name, when we build, we want only the best buildings in the world. We travel a lot to see real estate projects worldwide, and we always study what can be done better. There's no question about it: a Trump Tower has to have the very best quality, amenities and facilities. People want that ultra-luxurious lifestyle.
Quote examples
Guy Standing
English Actor
Using political power, the elite can induce local authorities to facilitate enclosure and privatisation of land, water, and other hitherto public amenities. And they can pressurise public administrations to cut taxes, reducing financial resources for maintaining the remaining commons.
Quote examples
Karol G
Colombian Musician
When I go on trips, I like to have everything in one place. Someone to be in charge of the food, someone to keep things organized, and someone to attend to us. I need the house to be awesome, by the water, with all the amenities I need.
Quote examples
Gerard Arpey
American Businessman
Second, we have to make the most of the strengths we have, the amenities that many of our competitors cannot replicate. But again, those advantages won't mean much if we don't do a great job with the basics of our business.
Quote examples
Sanjaya Baru
Indian Public Servant
Every university has its problems. The issues range from lack of amenities, plagiarism, poor quality research, sexual harassment, faculty moonlighting, and faulty and biased recruitment.
Quote examples
James B. Stewart
American Journalist
My experience bears out an adage about airlines: People almost always opt for convenience and price, even while complaining loudly about crowded planes and a dearth of amenities.
Quote examples
Mahatma Gandhi
Indian Leader
To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.
Quote examples
Gita Gopinath
Indian Economist
The awareness has increased about the need to increase womenwomen participation in the workplace, but there are no amenities to assure that.
Quote examples
Robert Reich
American Economist
Universities have to tame their budgets, especially for student amenities that have nothing to do with education.
Quote examples
John Naisbitt
American Businessman
In an information society, education is no mere amenity; it is the prime tool for growing people and profits.
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