Wealthy

//ˈwɛl.θi// adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Possessing financial wealth; rich.

    "As a result of these causes the grazier marks himself off fairly sharply from the rest of Australia. He has always spent a considerable proportion of the time in the capital cities, in each of which he has formed a club to which, besides the graziers, only a few of the wealthiest and most prominent of the city dwellers are admitted."

  2. 2
    Abundant in quality or quantity; profuse.
Adjective
  1. 1
    having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    Synonym of rich: the wealthy people of a society or of the world collectively. countable, plural, plural-only, uncountable

    "... whether consumption patterns of the wealthy are more or less polluting than those of the poor depends on the contaminant in question."

  2. 2
    A certain cultivar of American apple from Minnesota.

    "Wealthys and McIntoshes are not good bakers."

  3. 3
    A rich person. countable, uncommon

    "F. Scott Fitzgerald never got over Ginevra King's dad reminding him he wasn't a wealthy and needed to aim lower."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English welthy, welþi, equivalent to wealth + -y. Cognate with Middle Dutch weldech, weeldech (“magnificent, luscious, lavish”).

Etymology 2

From Middle English welthy, welþi, equivalent to wealth + -y. Cognate with Middle Dutch weldech, weeldech (“magnificent, luscious, lavish”).

Etymology 3

Named by Peter Gideon (1820–1899), creator of the cultivar, after his wife, Wealthy (Hull) Gideon.

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