Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. An abundance of valuable material possessions or resources; riches.
- n. The state of being rich; affluence.
- n. All goods and resources having value in terms of exchange or use.
- n. A great amount; a profusion: a wealth of advice.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. Weal; welfare; prosperity; good; well-being; happiness; joy.
- n. Riches; valuable material possessions.
- n. A great amount; an abundance or plenty.
- n. Power, of the kind associated with a great deal of money.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. Weal; welfare; prosperity; good.
- n. Large possessions; a comparative abundance of things which are objects of human desire; esp., abundance of worldly estate; affluence; opulence; riches.
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- n. In the private sense, all pooperty which has a money value.
- n. In the public sense, all objects, esp. material objects, which have economic utility.
- n. Those energies, faculties, and habits directly contributing to make people industrially efficient.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Weal; prosperity; well-being; happiness; joy.
- 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.
- n. Affluence; profusion; abundance.
- n. Synonyms Affluence, Riches, etc. Sec opulence.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. the quality of profuse abundance
- n. property that has economic utility: a monetary value or an exchange value
- n. the state of being rich and affluent; having a plentiful supply of material goods and money
- n. an abundance of material possessions and resources
Etymologies
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
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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
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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.
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They arrived, finally, and this time John understood what the word wealth really meant.
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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
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We have seen that the term wealth, rightly understood, means the fruit of the time-binding work of humanity.
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So that, in sum, the term wealth is never to be attached to the
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When I use the term wealth as applied to any bush-settler, it is of course only comparatively; but Jenny was anxious to obtain a place with settlers who enjoyed a small income independent of their forest means.
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The term wealth inequality refers to the unequal distribution of financial assets among a group of people.
Louises commented on the word wealth
See glimmering comments.
March 25, 2012
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