Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An abundance of valuable material possessions or resources; riches.
- noun The state of being rich; affluence.
- noun Goods and resources having value in terms of exchange or use.
- noun A great amount; a profusion.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Weal; prosperity; well-being; happiness; joy.
- noun 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.
- noun Affluence; profusion; abundance.
- noun Synonyms Affluence, Riches, etc. Sec opulence.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Weal; welfare; prosperity; good.
- noun Large possessions; a comparative abundance of things which are objects of human desire; esp., abundance of worldly estate; affluence; opulence; riches.
- noun In the private sense, all pooperty which has a money value.
- noun In the public sense, all objects, esp. material objects, which have economic utility.
- noun Those energies, faculties, and habits directly contributing to make people industrially efficient.
- noun See under
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from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete Weal; welfare; prosperity; good; well-being; happiness; joy.
- noun Riches; valuable material possessions.
- noun A
great amount ; anabundance orplenty . - noun
Power , of the kind associated with a great deal of money.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the quality of profuse abundance
- noun property that has economic utility: a monetary value or an exchange value
- noun the state of being rich and affluent; having a plentiful supply of material goods and money
- noun an abundance of material possessions and resources
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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He shows very clearly, according to my notion, that the mere possession of things, or of money, is not wealth, but that _wealth consists in the possession of things useful to us_.
The Common Sense of Socialism A Series of Letters Addressed to Jonathan Edwards, of Pittsburg John Spargo 1921
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As for the comment on wealth, and leaving aside the question of *wealth*, we have so much of it that the choices you mention are not choices at all.
The Guardian World News Simon Rogers 2010
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As for the comment on wealth, and leaving aside the question of *wealth*, we have so much of it that the choices you mention are not choices at all.
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Which leads to the wonderful value system wherein wealth is proof of moral value.
Matthew Yglesias » 400 Families Earned an Average of $345 Million Each in 2007 2010
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The mere use of any of the material products of labour, which we term wealth, can never in itself produce that decay, physical or mental, which precedes the downfall of great civilised nations.
Woman and Labour 2003
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They arrived, finally, and this time John understood what the word wealth really meant.
The Millionaire’s Secrets Mark Fisher 1996
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I know that sometimes political economists confuse their readers and themselves by a loose use of the term wealth, including in it many things which have nothing at all to do with economics.
The Common Sense of Socialism A Series of Letters Addressed to Jonathan Edwards, of Pittsburg John Spargo 1921
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We have seen that the term wealth, rightly understood, means the fruit of the time-binding work of humanity.
Manhood of Humanity. Alfred Korzybski 1914
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The mere use of any of the material products of labour, which we term wealth, can never in itself produce that decay, physical or mental, which precedes the downfall of great civilised nations.
Woman and Labour Olive Schreiner 1887
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So that, in sum, the term wealth is never to be attached to the
The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing John Ruskin 1859
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That’s made it the quintessential “quiet luxury” or “stealth wealth” brand, allowing rich people — from a tradition of Goldman Sachs executives to Bill Gates — to look nice without broadcasting that they spent several months of your rent on their outfit.
How Loro Piana Became Silicon Valley’s Favorite Flex Jen Wieczner 2023
sakhalinskii commented on the word wealth
"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
July 30, 2008
Louises commented on the word wealth
See glimmering comments.
March 25, 2012