Affluent
adj, noun ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 Someone who is wealthy.
"The affluents are most similar to the professional want-it-alls in their reasons for preferring specific hospitals and in their demographic characteristics."
- 2 a branch that flows into the main stream wordnet
- 3 A stream or river flowing into a larger river or into a lake; a tributary stream; a tributary.
"It [Central Asia] is separated from the river-system of the Aral and Caspian Seas, […] from the affluents of the Indus and Ganges, on the south, by the chain of the Küen-lün, the rival of the Himalayas, […]"
- 4 an affluent person; a person who is financially well off wordnet
- 1 Abundant; copious; plenteous.
"The shores are affluent in beauty, and incomparably lovely is the drive to the heights of Castel-a-Mare."
- 2 Abounding in goods or riches; having a moderate level of material wealth. broadly
"They were affluent, but aspired to true wealth."
- 3 Tributary. dated
- 4 Flowing to; flowing abundantly. obsolete
"affluent blood"
- 1 having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value wordnet
Example
More examples"In an affluent society most people have a high standard of living."
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French affluent, borrowed in turn from Latin affluentem, accusative singular of affluēns, present active participle of affluō (“flow to or towards; overflow with”), from ad (“to, towards”) + fluō (“flow”) (cognate via latter to fluid, flow). Sense of “wealthy” (plentiful flow of goods) c. 1600, which also led to nominalization affluence.