Wealth
noun ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 Riches; a great amount of valuable assets or material possessions. uncountable
"Money talks, but true wealth whispers."
- 2 the quality of profuse abundance wordnet
- 3 A great amount; an abundance or plenty. countable
"She brings a wealth of knowledge to the project."
- 4 property that has economic utility: a monetary value or an exchange value wordnet
- 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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- 6 an abundance of material possessions and resources wordnet
- 7 the state of being rich and affluent; having a plentiful supply of material goods and money wordnet
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More examples"Wealth comes to those who make things happen, not to those who let things happen."
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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