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Main Entry:	avarice
Part of Speech:	n
Definition:	excessive or insatiable desire or greed; cupidity
Etymology:	Latin avere 'to covet'

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–noun

insatiable greed for riches; inordinate, miserly desire to gain and hoard wealth.

[Origin: 1250–1300; ME < OF < L avāritia, equiv. to avār(us) greedy + -itia -ice

]

—Synonyms cupidity.

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av·a·rice Audio Help (āv'ə-rĭs) Pronunciation Key
n. Immoderate desire for wealth; cupidity.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin avāritia, from avārus, greedy, from avēre, to desire.]

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avarice

c.1300, from O.Fr. avarice, from L. avaritia "greed," from avarus "greedy," adj. form of avere "crave, long for."

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avarice
noun
1.	reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins)
2.	extreme greed for material wealth

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avarice [ˈӕvəris] noun

strong desire for money etc; greed

Arabic:	طَمَع في جَمْع المال
Chinese (Simplified):	贪婪
Chinese (Traditional):	貪婪
Czech:	hrabivost; lakomství
Danish:	griskhed
Dutch:	gierigheid, hebzucht
Estonian:	ahnus
Finnish:	ahneus
French:	avarice
German:	der Geiz
Greek:	πλεονεξία, φιλαργυρία
Hungarian:	kapzsiság
Icelandic:	ágirnd, fégræðgi
Indonesian:	ketamakan, keserakahan
Italian:	avarizia

Japanese:	強欲
Korean:	탐욕
Latvian:	mantrausība; skopums
Lithuanian:	gobšumas, godumas
Norwegian:	griskhet
Polish:	chciwość
Portuguese (Brazil):	avareza
Portuguese (Portugal):	avareza
Romanian:	avariţie
Russian:	алчность
Slovak:	lakomstvo
Slovenian:	skopost
Spanish:	avaricia
Swedish:	girighet
Turkish:	hırs, para ve zenginlik hırsı

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Avarice

Au"tumn\, n. [L. auctumnus, autumnus, perh. fr. a root av to satisfy one's self: cf. F. automne. See Avarice.]

1. The third season of the year, or the season between summer and winter, often called "the fall." Astronomically, it begins in the northern temperate zone at the autumnal equinox, about September 23, and ends at the winter solstice, about December 23; but in popular language, autumn, in America, comprises September, October, and November.

Note: In England, according to Johnson, autumn popularly comprises August, September, and October. In the southern hemisphere, the autumn corresponds to our spring.

2. The harvest or fruits of autumn. --Milton.

3. The time of maturity or decline; latter portion; third stage.

Dr. Preston was now entering into the autumn of the duke's favor. --Fuller.

Life's autumn past, I stand on winter's verge. --Wordsworth.

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