affluent
having an abundance of wealth, property, or other material goods; prosperous; rich: an affluent person.
abounding in anything; abundant.
flowing freely: an affluent fountain.
a tributary stream.
an affluent person: a luxurious resort appealing to young affluents.
Origin of affluent
1synonym study For affluent
Other words for affluent
Other words from affluent
- af·flu·ent·ly, adverb
- non·af·flu·ent, adjective
- sub·af·flu·ent, adjective
- sub·af·flu·ent·ly, adverb
- su·per·af·flu·ent, adjective
- su·per·af·flu·ent·ly, adverb
- un·af·flu·ent, adjective
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How to use affluent in a sentence
There are some ways in which the modern Democratic Party have help businesses and the affluent, but the Republican Party has done more.
These mostly affluent kids have been through a painful six months.
The Learning Curve: School Is Now an Antidote Few Families Can Access | Will Huntsberry | September 24, 2020 | Voice of San DiegoThat trend also seems to be true in San Diego County, where districts with reopening plans tend to be among the most affluent.
La Jolla Parents Are Opting Out of San Diego Unified | Will Huntsberry | September 21, 2020 | Voice of San DiegoIn November 2018, the Woolsey Fire ripped through the affluent beachside town of Malibu, California.
California can’t recover from its devastating fires unless it overhauls its zoning laws | Tim McDonnell | September 18, 2020 | QuartzThe more affluent communities have lobbyists who are ensuring that the infrastructure that they need doesn’t get built in their community.
Uncharted Power’s Jessica O. Matthews has a plan to revive America’s crumbling infrastructure | Brooke Henderson | August 23, 2020 | Fortune
Were the fairy-tale true it really would shame the affluent west.
The more affluent a society, the more educated, the more democratic, the more networked, and so on.
It Gets Better—but Mostly if You Live in a Rich, Democratic Country | Jay Michaelson | November 11, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAnd the boomers—at least those in the more affluent classes—are about to get yet another windfall.
As a powerful mother, outspoken artist, and affluent businesswoman, Beyoncé is surely a feminist success story.
The Perils of Glitzy Celebrity Feminism Having a Moment | Amy Zimmerman | October 15, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTVictoria Adams was born to middle-class parents in the affluent county of Hertfordshire.
Lords not only ought to be gentlefolk, and be fed and waited upon and live in affluent idleness, but super-gentlefolk.
Its chief affluent is the Ltschine (flowing from the valleys of Grindelwald and Lauterbrunnen).
They demonstrate that the nation in good seasons can feed itself in the most affluent degree.
Then again they would be as iron-hearted in their demands, as though we were free from sufferings, and in affluent circumstances.
Fox's Book of Martyrs | John FoxeHatcher's Run, an affluent of Rowanty Creek, has a general (p. 491) southeast course.
The Boys of '61 | Charles Carleton Coffin.
British Dictionary definitions for affluent
/ (ˈæflʊənt) /
rich; wealthy
abundant; copious
flowing freely
archaic a tributary stream
Origin of affluent
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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