Contextualizebeta

of means

prep_phrase

Definitions

  1. Possessing significant wealth, especially as suggesting social standing.

    • He seemed a person of means and leisure, but he knew nothing of recent concerts, theatres, or books.
    • The reward offered by Mrs. Hasbrouck for the detection of the murderer was a very large one. She is a woman of means.
    • Rich and pretty, he shows how meaningless it is to be a man of means. He in incapacitated by wealth, status and the availability of sex with good-looking people.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for of means. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA