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RICHES
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An abundance of material possessions and resources
Synonyms:
riches; wealth
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Hypernyms ("riches" is a kind of...):
material resource (assets in the form of material possessions)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "riches"):
gold (great wealth)
hoarded wealth; treasure (accumulated wealth in the form of money or jewels etc.)
Context examples:
In the immediate nearness of the gold, all else had been forgotten: his promise and the doctor's warning were both things of the past, and I could not doubt that he hoped to seize upon the treasure, find and board the HISPANIOLA under cover of night, cut every honest throat about that island, and sail away as he had at first intended, laden with crimes and riches.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
It had very early occurred to her that a small sum of money might, perhaps, restore peace for ever on the sore subject of the silver knife, canvassed as it now was continually, and the riches which she was in possession of herself, her uncle having given her 10 pounds at parting, made her as able as she was willing to be generous.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
"May she always be poor, if she can employ her riches no better."
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
One gave her goodness, another beauty, another riches, and so on till she had all that was good in the world.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
That, if it had been my good fortune to come into the world a struldbrug, as soon as I could discover my own happiness, by understanding the difference between life and death, I would first resolve, by all arts and methods, whatsoever, to procure myself riches.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Have you riches?
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Poor simple lad! he had not learned yet that what men are and what men profess to be are very wide asunder, and that the Knights of St. John, having come into large part of the riches of the ill-fated Templars, were very much too comfortable to think of exchanging their palace for a tent, or the cellars of England for the thirsty deserts of Syria.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Her mother too, in whose mind not one speculative thought of their marriage had been raised, by his prospect of riches, was led before the end of a week to hope and expect it; and secretly to congratulate herself on having gained two such sons-in-law as Edward and Willoughby.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Then he seized an iron bar and beat the old man till he moaned and entreated him to stop, when he would give him great riches.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
I said, my birth was of honest parents, in an island called England; which was remote from his country, as many days’ journey as the strongest of his honour’s servants could travel in the annual course of the sun; that I was bred a surgeon, whose trade it is to cure wounds and hurts in the body, gotten by accident or violence; that my country was governed by a female man, whom we called queen; that I left it to get riches, whereby I might maintain myself and family, when I should return; that, in my last voyage, I was commander of the ship, and had about fifty Yahoos under me, many of which died at sea, and I was forced to supply them by others picked out from several nations; that our ship was twice in danger of being sunk, the first time by a great storm, and the second by striking against a rock.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
