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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.
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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.]
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Word Origin & History

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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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