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WEALTH
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of profuse abundance
Example:
she has a wealth of talent
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("wealth" is a kind of...):
abundance; copiousness; teemingness (the property of a more than adequate quantity or supply)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Property that has economic utility: a monetary value or an exchange value
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Hypernyms ("wealth" is a kind of...):
belongings; holding; property (something owned; any tangible or intangible possession that is owned by someone)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "wealth"):
money (wealth reckoned in terms of money)
Sense 3
Meaning:
An abundance of material possessions and resources
Synonyms:
riches; wealth
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Hypernyms ("wealth" is a kind of...):
material resource (assets in the form of material possessions)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "wealth"):
gold (great wealth)
hoarded wealth; treasure (accumulated wealth in the form of money or jewels etc.)
Derivation:
wealthy (having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value)
Sense 4
Meaning:
The state of being rich and affluent; having a plentiful supply of material goods and money
Example:
great wealth is not a sign of great intelligence
Synonyms:
wealth; wealthiness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("wealth" is a kind of...):
financial condition (the condition of (corporate or personal) finances)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "wealth"):
affluence; richness (abundant wealth)
inherited wealth (wealth that is inherited rather than earned)
luxuriousness; luxury; opulence; sumptuousness (wealth as evidenced by sumptuous living)
mammon (wealth regarded as an evil influence)
sufficiency (sufficient resources to provide comfort and meet obligations)
Antonym:
poverty (the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions)
Derivation:
wealthy (having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value)
Context examples:
Heaven forbid that I should grudge my native country any portion of the wealth that may be accumulated by our descendants!
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
There are certainly odd deficiencies in the house, considering the extraordinary evidences of wealth which are round me.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
I found it a large, handsome residence, showing abundant evidences of wealth in the proprietor.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
The dictator, his two children, his secretary, and his wealth had all escaped them.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
My life might have been passed in ease and luxury, but I preferred glory to every enticement that wealth placed in my path.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
From what I hear, in spite of all his wealth and his title, he very nearly came our way once or twice.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
And now—and now I am myself a branded thief, without ever having touched the wealth for which I sold my character.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He pointed out a wealth of literature demonstrates graphene’s impermeable qualities.
(Graphene shield shows promise in blocking mosquito bites, National Institutes of Health)
Curiosity plus a fleet of spacecraft in the orbit of Mars, will allow scientists for the first time to collect a wealth of dust information both from the surface and from space.
(Martian Dust Storm Grows Global: Curiosity Captures Photos of Thickening Haze, NASA)
Where people are really attached, poverty itself is wealth; grandeur I detest: I would not settle in London for the universe.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
