RICHES


Meaning of RICHES in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

untold riches/wealth

a game that offers untold wealth to the most talented players

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

untold

A dream of 10 years coming to final fruition. Untold riches as a glint in the eye.

Elf clippers sailed as far as Nippon and Cathay in search of goods. Untold riches flowed through Lothern.

It would eventually bring him untold riches .

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

an embarrassment of riches

I look forward to having the letter you wrote tonight before you called-altogether an embarrassment of riches!

If there is not quite an embarrassment of riches, there is enough to make the small investor blush at the choice.

The Prado's problem is an embarrassment of riches, with nowhere to put most of them.

They eventually suffered from an embarrassment of riches: they laughingly killed all their enemies and created their worst nightmare.

We have an embarrassment of riches here!

from rags to riches

I used the analogy of a family that goes from rags to riches and back to rags in three or four generations.

These he is at pains to hide in order to promote the fiction of his rise from rags to riches.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

He had soon squandered his family's riches .

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

And with even more riches going to the big clubs, then it follows that even less goes to the smaller clubs.

But this pop business is not all eight-figure deals and unimaginable riches .

Fame and riches were instantly his.

Jimmy, entering through the open gates, stared at the motorcar, a sign of real riches .

The Atocha and its riches were discovered in 1985 by treasure hunter Mel Fisher off the Florida coast.

We have a right to all of that, to all its riches for constructing our modern identity.

Wealth flowed back to Ulthuan and great were its riches .

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