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Riches
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- 1 A surname originating as a patronymic.
- 1 Money, goods, wealth, treasure. plural, plural-only
"Cal.[…]Sometimes a thouſand twangling Inſtruments Will hum about mine eares ; and ſometime voices, That if I then had wak'd after long ſleepe, Will make me ſleepe againe, and then in dreaming, The clouds methought would open, and ſhew riches Ready to drop vpon me, that when I wak'd I cri'de to dreame againe."
- 2 Rich people. nonstandard, plural, plural-only, rare
"Mr. Chander Lall Mookerji wrote to me thus: “The youngs and the olds, the highs and the lows, the riches and the poors, all join together in praising Your Honour’s magnanimity.”"
- 3 an abundance of material possessions and resources wordnet
- 4 An abundance of anything desirable. figuratively, plural, plural-only
"You will enjoy the riches of this forest."
Etymology
From Middle English riches, plural of riche (“power, wealth”), from Old English rīċe (“power, authority, dominion”). Confused with Middle English richesse (“wealth”), from Old French richesse, from riche (“rich, wealthy”), of Germanic origin, from Frankish *rīki (“rich”) from Proto-Germanic *rīkijaz (“rich, powerful”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ- (“to straighten, direct, make right”). Akin to Old High German rīhhi (“rich”) (German reich (“rich”)), Old English rīċe (“rich”), Old English racu (“explanation, reasoning”). More at rich.
From rich + -es (plural suffix) by analogy with poors (“poor people”).
From Rich, a diminutive of Richard + the patronymic suffix -s.
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