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  1. adjective Possessing great material wealth: "Now that he was rich he was not thought ignorant any more, but simply eccentric” (Mavis Gallant).
  2. adjective Having great worth or value: a rich harvest of grain.
  3. adjective Magnificent; sumptuous: a rich brocade.
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  • But I believe that the poor hate the rich, and that the rich are afraid of the poor. —  The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters
  • —I sent my answer by them [the Moores] to Mrs. Knight; my double acceptance of her note and her invitation, which I wrote without effort, for I am rich, and the rich are always respectable, whatever be their style of writing. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters, by William Austen-Leigh and Richard Arthur Austen-Leigh
  • One certainly has to assume that the ultra rich are all in favour of this since no one is squawking. —  Doug's Darkworld
  • Give tax cuts and the rich are the only ones who benefoit —  Whirlpool.net.au
  • At first the rich are the only ones asked to pay more of their "fair share."
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  1. Middle English riche, from Old French (of Germanic origin) and from Old English rīce, strong, powerful; see reg- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English rich, riche, ryche; (a) partly from Anglo-Saxon rīce, rich, powerful, = Old Saxon rīki = OFries. rīke, rīk = Dutch rijk = Middle Low German Low German rik, rike = Old High German rīhhi, Middle High German rīche, German reich = Icelandic rīkr = Swedish rik = Danish rig = Gothic (Moesogothic) reiks, powerful; and (b) partly from Old French riche, French riche = Provencal ric = Spanish Portuguese rico = Italian ricco, rich (all from Teutonic); with adjective formative, from Gothic (Moesogothic) reiks, ruler, king, from OCelt. rīg (Irish righ, Gaelic righ), a king, = Latin rex (reg-), a king (= Sanskrit rājan, a king), from regere, Sanskrit √ rāj. rule: see regent, rex, Raja. Cf. riche, n.
  2. Also sometimes ritch; from Middle English richen, rechen, rychen (= Old Dutch rijken = Old High German rīchan, rīhhan, rīchen, rule, control), from rich, a. Cf. rich, a.
  3. from Middle English riche; from rich, a.
  4. Middle English richen, ricchen, a variant of *recchen, from Anglo-Saxon reccan, stretch, direct, rule: see retch, rack.
 

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