1. That which is of better quality and usually more expensive than the usual items of its kind: Tom and his family stayed at a deluxe hotel when they went to Paris.

The deluxe edition of the book that Mary bought included many more color images.

2. Etymology: from Latin dis, "utterly, completely" + luxuria , "excess, abundance, extravagance".

A term originally indicating a book that was bound by hand in leather, the implication being that superior materials and methods were used in preparing the book: The term, deluxe binding, is also used by edition binders or publishers to indicate a book that is covered in a superior grade of cloth or imitation leather.

The publication of a book that is produced on a grade of paper which is superior to that of a standard edition, more-or-less expensively bound, sometimes printed with special type, and often limited in number: There are times when the term deluxe edition is used merely as a selling attraction with little or no special qualities.