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conveniences

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n.1.things that make one comfortable and at ease.
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Noun1.conveniencesconveniences - things that make you comfortable and at ease; "all the comforts of home"
amenities, comforts, creature comforts
bread and butter, keep, livelihood, sustenance, living, support - the financial means whereby one lives; "each child was expected to pay for their keep"; "he applied to the state for support"; "he could no longer earn his own livelihood"


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I mean LITTLE conveniences; it is the little conveniences that make the real comfort of life.
A Connecticut Yankee by Twain, Mark View in context
He was one of those wise men who regard beauty in the other sex as a very worthless and superficial qualification; or, to speak more truly, who rather chuse to possess every convenience of life with an ugly woman, than a handsome one without any of those conveniences.
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Fielding, Henry View in context
Why, he said, you should give them the ordinary conveniences of life.
The Republic by Plato View in context
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