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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. An abundance of valuable material possessions or resources; riches.
  2. n. The state of being rich; affluence.
  3. n. All goods and resources having value in terms of exchange or use.
  4. n. A great amount; a profusion: a wealth of advice.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Weal; prosperity; well-being; happiness; joy.
  2. n. Riches; valuable material possessions; that which serves, or the aggregate of those things which serve, a useful or desired purpose, and cannot be acquired without a sacrifice of labor, capital, or time; especially, large possessions; abundance of worldly estate; affluence; opulence.
  3. n. Affluence; profusion; abundance.
  4. n. Synonyms Affluence, Riches, etc. Sec opulence.

Wiktionary

  1. n. obsolete Weal; welfare; prosperity; good; well-being; happiness; joy.
  2. n. Riches; valuable material possessions.
  3. n. A great amount; an abundance or plenty.
  4. n. Power, of the kind associated with a great deal of money.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. obsolete Weal; welfare; prosperity; good.
  2. n. Large possessions; a comparative abundance of things which are objects of human desire; esp., abundance of worldly estate; affluence; opulence; riches.
  3. n. In the private sense, all pooperty which has a money value.
  4. n. In the public sense, all objects, esp. material objects, which have economic utility.
  5. n. Those energies, faculties, and habits directly contributing to make people industrially efficient.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the quality of profuse abundance
  2. n. property that has economic utility: a monetary value or an exchange value
  3. n. the state of being rich and affluent; having a plentiful supply of material goods and money
  4. n. an abundance of material possessions and resources

Etymologies

  1. From Middle English welth, welthe, weolthe ("happiness, prosperity"), 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 *welô (“well-being, prosperity”), from Proto-Indo-European *wel- (“good, best”), equivalent to weal +‎ -th. Cognate with 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. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English welthe, from wele, from Old English wela; see wel-1 in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • Louises See glimmering comments. Mar 25, 2012

  • sakhalinskii "Our true wealth is the good we do in this world. None of us has faith unless we desire for our neighbors what we desire for ourselves." - Muhammad Jul 30, 2008

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