wealth

Riches; a great amount of valuable assets or material possessions.

Noun

  1. Riches; a great amount of valuable assets or material possessions.
    • Money talks, but true wealth whispers.
  2. A great amount; an abundance or plenty.
    • She brings a wealth of knowledge to the project.
    • There is a wealth of carved wood inside: from pulpit to pews, screens to lectern, and a large medieval chest made from a hollowed-out log of bog-oak with a massive lid. - 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive...
    • Beyond its aim to bring patients the most effective treatments faster, the service is expected to generate a wealth of data on the interplay between DNA, health and lifestyles, which will become a powerful tool for...
  3. Prosperity; well-being; happiness.
    • I once did lend my body for his wealth, / Which, but for him that had your husband's ring, / Had quite miscarried: […] - c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William...
    • Let no man seek his own, but every man another's wealth. - 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Corinthians 10:24:

Origin

Inherited from Middle English welth, welthe (“happiness, prosperity”), from Old English *welþ, *welþu, from Proto-West Germanic *waliþu (“wealth”). Alternatively, possibly an alteration (due to similar words in -th: compare helth (“health”), derth (“dearth”)) of wele (“wealth, well-being, weal”), from Old English wela (“wealth, prosperity”), from Proto-Germanic *walô (“well-being, prosperity”), from Proto-Indo-European *wel- (“good, best”); equivalent to weal + -th (abstract nominal suffix). Cognate with West Frisian wielde (“wealth”), Dutch weelde (“wealth”), Low German Weelde (“wealth”), Old High German welida, welitha (“wealth”). Related also to German Wohl (“welfare, well-being, weal”), Danish vel (“weal, welfare”), Swedish väl (“well-being, weal”). More at weal, well.

Forms

wealths wealthe welth welthe

Wikipedia

Wealth

Synonyms

abundance affluence cheese ease fortune Mammon opulence plenty richdom riches wealth

Antonyms

poverty

Hypernyms

excess

Hyponyms

prosperity prosperousness

Related

wealthy money owndom property

Derived

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