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Wealth

//wɛlθ// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Riches; a great amount of valuable assets or material possessions. uncountable

    "Money talks, but true wealth whispers."

  2. 2
    the quality of profuse abundance wordnet
  3. 3
    A great amount; an abundance or plenty. countable

    "She brings a wealth of knowledge to the project."

  4. 4
    property that has economic utility: a monetary value or an exchange value wordnet
  5. 5
    Prosperity; well-being; happiness. obsolete, uncountable

    "I once did lend my body for his wealth, / Which, but for him that had your husband's ring, / Had quite miscarried: […]"

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  1. 6
    an abundance of material possessions and resources wordnet
  2. 7
    the state of being rich and affluent; having a plentiful supply of material goods and money wordnet

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English welth, welthe (“happiness, prosperity”), from Old English *welþ, *welþu, from Proto-West Germanic *waliþu (“wealth”). Alternatively, possibly an alteration (due to similar words in -th: compare helth (“health”), derth (“dearth”)) of wele (“wealth, well-being, weal”), from Old English wela (“wealth, prosperity”), from Proto-Germanic *walô (“well-being, prosperity”), from Proto-Indo-European *wel- (“good, best”); equivalent to weal + -th (abstract nominal suffix). Cognate with Dutch weelde (“wealth”), Low German weelde (“wealth”), Old High German welida, welitha (“wealth”). Related also to German Wohl (“welfare, well-being, weal”), Danish vel (“weal, welfare”), Swedish väl (“well-being, weal”). More at weal, well.

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