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Affluent
Definitions
- 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
- 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
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.
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.
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