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Rich

//ɹɪt͡ʃ// adj, name, noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Wealthy: having a lot of money and possessions.

    "“A very welcome, kind, useful present, that means to the parish. By the way, Hopkins, let this go no further. We don't want the tale running round that a rich person has arrived. Churchill, my dear fellow, we have such greedy sharks, and wolves in lamb's clothing.[…]”"

  2. 2
    Having an intense fatty or sugary flavour.

    "a rich dish; rich cream or soup; rich pastry"

  3. 3
    Remunerative.

    "All racists I grew up with have rich jobs."

  4. 4
    Plentiful, abounding, abundant, fulfilling.

    "a rich treasury; a rich entertainment; a rich crop"

  5. 5
    Yielding large returns; productive or fertile; fruitful.

    "rich soil or land; a rich mine"

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  1. 6
    Composed of valuable or costly materials or ingredients; procured at great outlay; highly valued; precious; sumptuous; costly.

    "a rich endowment; a rich dress; rich silk or fur; rich presents"

  2. 7
    Not faint or delicate; vivid.

    "a rich red colour"

  3. 8
    Very amusing. informal

    "The scene was a rich one."

  4. 9
    Ridiculous, absurd, outrageous, preposterous, especially in a galling, hypocritical, or brazen way. informal

    "That's rich, coming from you."

  5. 10
    Pornographic; titillating. slang, uncommon
  6. 11
    Elaborate, having complex formatting, multimedia, or depth of interaction.

    "A skilled multimedia developer will have no problems adding interactive video and audio into existing rich media web pages."

  7. 12
    Of a solute-solvent solution: not weak (not diluted); of strong concentration.

    "mixed up a batch that was quite rich"

  8. 13
    Of a solute-solvent solution: not weak (not diluted); of strong concentration.; Of a fuel-air mixture: having more fuel (thus less air) than is necessary to burn all of the fuel; less air- or oxygen- rich than necessary for a stoichiometric reaction.
  9. 14
    Trading at a price level which is high relative to historical trends, a similar asset, or (for derivatives) a theoretical value.

    "The ETF is trading rich to NAV right now; we can arb this by selling the ETF and buying the underlying constituents."

Adjective
  1. 1
    affording an abundant supply wordnet
  2. 2
    strong; intense wordnet
  3. 3
    marked by great fruitfulness wordnet
  4. 4
    pleasantly full and mellow wordnet
  5. 5
    very productive wordnet
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  1. 6
    possessing material wealth wordnet
  2. 7
    having an abundant supply of desirable qualities or substances (especially natural resources) wordnet
  3. 8
    suggestive of or characterized by great expense wordnet
  4. 9
    high in mineral content; having a high proportion of fuel to air wordnet
  5. 10
    marked by richness and fullness of flavor wordnet
  6. 11
    of great worth or quality wordnet
  7. 12
    containing plenty of fat, or eggs, or sugar wordnet
  8. 13
    causing indignation due to hypocrisy wordnet
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A diminutive of the male given name Richard.
  2. 2
    A surname transferred from the given name.
  3. 3
    A place in the United States:; A township in Cook County, Illinois.
  4. 4
    A place in the United States:; A township in Anderson County, Kansas.
  5. 5
    A place in the United States:; A township in Lapeer County, Michigan.
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  1. 6
    A place in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Coahoma County, Mississippi.
Noun
  1. 1
    The rich people of a society or the world collectively, the rich class of a society. plural, plural-only

    "Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand. They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are..."

  2. 2
    people who have possessions and wealth (considered as a group) wordnet
  3. 3
    the second placer in Tycoon plural, plural-only
Verb
  1. 1
    To enrich. obsolete, transitive

    "And than he shall be riched ſo, That it may faile nevermo"

  2. 2
    To become rich. intransitive, obsolete

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English riche (“strong, powerful, rich”), from Old English rīċe (“powerful, mighty, great, high-ranking, rich, wealthy, strong, potent”), from Proto-West Germanic *rīkī (“powerful, rich”), from Proto-Germanic *rīkijaz (“kingly, powerful, rich”), from Proto-Germanic *rīks (“king, ruler”), an early borrowing from Proto-Celtic *rīxs, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs. Reinforced by Old French riche, from the same West Germanic source.

Etymology 2

From Middle English riche (“strong, powerful, rich”), from Old English rīċe (“powerful, mighty, great, high-ranking, rich, wealthy, strong, potent”), from Proto-West Germanic *rīkī (“powerful, rich”), from Proto-Germanic *rīkijaz (“kingly, powerful, rich”), from Proto-Germanic *rīks (“king, ruler”), an early borrowing from Proto-Celtic *rīxs, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs. Reinforced by Old French riche, from the same West Germanic source.

Etymology 3

From Middle English riche (“strong, powerful, rich”), from Old English rīċe (“powerful, mighty, great, high-ranking, rich, wealthy, strong, potent”), from Proto-West Germanic *rīkī (“powerful, rich”), from Proto-Germanic *rīkijaz (“kingly, powerful, rich”), from Proto-Germanic *rīks (“king, ruler”), an early borrowing from Proto-Celtic *rīxs, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs. Reinforced by Old French riche, from the same West Germanic source.

Etymology 4

From Richard. The surname also derives from rich as a nickname.

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