WEALTH


Meaning of WEALTH in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ welθ ]

Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.

1.

Wealth is the possession of a large amount of money, property, or other valuable things. You can also refer to a particular person’s money or property as their wealth .

Economic reform has brought relative wealth to peasant farmers...

= affluence

N-UNCOUNT

2.

If you say that someone or something has a wealth of good qualities or things, you are emphasizing that they have a very large number or amount of them. ( FORMAL )

...such a wealth of creative expertise...

= abundance

N-SING : a N of n [ emphasis ]

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