wealth
nounEtymology
Inherited from Middle English welth, welthe (“happiness, prosperity”), from Old English *welþ, *welþu, from Proto-West Germanic *waliþu (“wealth”). Alternatively, possibly an alteration (due to similar words in -th: compare helth (“health”), derth (“dearth”)) of wele (“wealth, well-being, weal”), from Old English wela (“wealth, prosperity”), from Proto-Germanic *walô (“well-being, prosperity”), from Proto-Indo-European *wel- (“good, best”); equivalent to weal + -th (abstract nominal suffix). Cognate with West Frisian wielde (“wealth”), Dutch weelde (“wealth”), Low German Weelde (“wealth”), Old High German welida, welitha (“wealth”). Related also to German Wohl (“welfare, well-being, weal”), Danish vel (“weal, welfare”), Swedish väl (“well-being, weal”). More at weal, well.
Definitions
Riches
Riches; a great amount of valuable assets or material possessions.
- Money talks, but true wealth whispers.
A great amount
A great amount; an abundance or plenty.
- She brings a wealth of knowledge to the project.
- There is a wealth of carved wood inside: from pulpit to pews, screens to lectern, and a large medieval chest made from a hollowed-out log of bog-oak with a massive lid.
Prosperity
Prosperity; well-being; happiness.
- I once did lend my body for his wealth, / Which, but for him that had your husband's ring, / Had quite miscarried: […]
- Let no man seek his own, but every man another's wealth.
The neighborhood
- synonymabundance
- synonymaffluence
- synonymcheese
- synonymease
- synonymfortune
- synonymMammon
- synonymopulence
- synonymplenty
- synonymrichdom
- synonymriches
- synonymwealth
- antonympoverty
- neighborwealthy
- neighbormoney
- neighborowndom
- neighborproperty
- neighborexcess
- neighborprosperity
- neighborprosperousness
Derived
bookshelf wealth, bridewealth, cattlewealth, commonwealth, cultural wealth, generational wealth, health is wealth, health is your first wealth, megawealth, redistribution of wealth, roll in wealth, self-made wealth, sovereign wealth fund, stealth wealth, superwealth, unwealth, wealthen, wealthfare, wealthful, wealthfully, wealthily, wealthiness, wealthless, wealthlessness, wealth tax, wealthy, wealthyish
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at wealth. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at wealth. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
7 hops · closes at wealth
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA