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opulence

[ op-yuh-luhns ]

noun

  1. wealth, riches, or affluence.
  2. abundance, as of resources or goods; plenty.
  3. the state of being opulent.


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Other Words From

  • un·opu·lence noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of opulence1

First recorded in 1500–10, opulence is from the Latin word opulentia wealth. See opulent, -ence

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Example Sentences

We see it at several different periods, from the height of its opulence in the 1930s to the shabby Communist look of the 1960s.

The scale, opulence and fantasy so prevalent a few miles away on the Strip is nowhere to be found.

Many say that The Great Beauty is the new Fellini, with its handsome surrealism, baroque expressions, and casual opulence.

The Daily Pic: The Met's Cloisters branch turns 75, and shows off knightly opulence.

The opulence of the gifts is legendary, and it used to be that the presenters and performers at the ceremony also received them.

There were hundreds of thousands in France, the most illustrious in rank and opulence, who would join such an army.

Opulence introduced the cultivation of the fine arts, with a taste for literature, and consequently for disputation.

There are beings so dejected—so penurious—that this swearing constitutes their whole store of worldly opulence.

The emigrant from the sandbanks of Cape Cod revels in the profusion of the opulence of Ohio.

Hundreds of families were burned out, and reduced from opulence, or at least competency, to penury.

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