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wealth

[welth]
–noun
1. a great quantity or store of money, valuable possessions, property, or other riches: the wealth of a city.
2. an abundance or profusion of anything; plentiful amount: a wealth of imagery.
3. Economics.
a. all things that have a monetary or exchange value.
b. anything that has utility and is capable of being appropriated or exchanged.
4. rich or valuable contents or produce: the wealth of the soil.
5. the state of being rich; prosperity; affluence: persons of wealth and standing.
6. Obsolete. happiness.

Origin:
1200–50; ME welth (see well 1 , -th 1 ); modeled on health


wealthless, adjective


2. richness, amplitude, fullness. 3a. possessions, assets, goods, property, money. 5. opulence, fortune.


5. poverty.
wealth   (wělth)   
n.  
    1. An abundance of valuable material possessions or resources; riches.
    2. The state of being rich; affluence.
  1. All goods and resources having value in terms of exchange or use.
  2. A great amount; a profusion: a wealth of advice.

[Middle English welthe, from wele, from Old English wela; see wel-1 in Indo-European roots.]

Wealth

Wealth\, n. (Econ.) (a) In the private sense, all pooperty which has a money value. (b) In the public sense, all objects, esp. material objects, which have economic utility. (c) Specif. called personal wealth. Those energies, faculties, and habits directly contributing to make people industrially efficient.

Wealth

Wealth\, n. [OE. welthe, from wele; cf. D. weelde luxury. See Weal prosperity.]

1. Weal; welfare; prosperity; good. [Obs.] "Let no man seek his own, but every man another's wealth." --1 Cor. x. 24.

2. Large possessions; a comparative abundance of things which are objects of human desire; esp., abundance of worldly estate; affluence; opulence; riches.

I have little wealth to lose. --Shak.

Each day new wealth, without their care, provides. --Dryden.

Wealth comprises all articles of value and nothing else. --F. A. Walker.

Active wealth. See under Active.

Syn: Riches; affluence; opulence; abundance.
Language Translation for : Wealth
Spanish: fortuna, riqueza,
German: der Reichtum,
Japanese:

wealth 
c.1250, "happiness," also "prosperity in abundance of possessions or riches," from M.E. wele "well-being" (see weal (1)) on analogy of health. Wealthy as a synonym for "rich" is recorded from c.1430.
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