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wealth
[ welth ]
noun
- a great quantity or store of money, valuable possessions, property, or other riches:
the wealth of a city.
- an abundance or profusion of anything; plentiful amount:
a wealth of imagery.
- Economics.
- all things that have a monetary or exchange value.
- anything that has utility and is capable of being appropriated or exchanged.
- rich or valuable contents or produce:
the wealth of the soil.
- the state of being rich; prosperity; affluence:
persons of wealth and standing.
Antonyms: poverty
- Obsolete. happiness.
wealth
/ wɛlθ /
noun
- a large amount of money and valuable material possessions
- the state of being rich
- a great profusion
a wealth of gifts
- economics all goods and services with monetary, exchangeable, or productive value
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Derived Forms
- ˈwealthless, adjective
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Other Words From
- wealthless adjective
- over·wealth noun
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of wealth1
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Example Sentences
The Perfect Storm writer talks combat brotherhood and the threat posed by growing wealth inequality.
The second, and perhaps more surprising, is the wealth of human capital already existent in the region.
Here, black children are born into families with about 10 percent—one-tenth—the average wealth of white families.
Why have educational outcomes so stubbornly flat-lined in the face of this wealth of educational resources?
He was a scion of immense wealth, a civil rights activist, and an art collector and patron.
The old earl's property, the source of his wealth, as from his title the reader will have shrewdly guessed, was in collieries.
It is a lofty and richly-decorated pile of the fourteenth century; and tells of the labours and the wealth of a foreign land.
He saw with evident pleasure the outward and visible signs of the old earl's immense wealth.
If wealth were always thus employed, it were a pity that great fortunes are not more numerous.
Here and there exceptional industry or extraordinary capacity raised the artisan to wealth and turned the "man" into the "master."
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