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US
/ˈwɛɫθ/
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[ UK /wˈɛlθ/ ]
[ UK /wˈɛlθ/ ]
NOUN
- an abundance of material possessions and resources
- property that has economic utility: a monetary value or an exchange value
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the quality of profuse abundance
she has a wealth of talent -
the state of being rich and affluent; having a plentiful supply of material goods and money
great wealth is not a sign of great intelligence
How To Use wealth In A Sentence
- A few talented writers en dowed with originality and exceptional animation, a few brilliant efforts, isolated, without following, interrupted and recommenced, did not suffice to endow a nation with a solid and imposing basis of literary wealth. Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian
- First, it moves a great deal of diffuse wealth and concentrates it in the hands of the war industry.
- On the one hand, it was a powerful tool to enhance or sustain personal and corporate power, wealth, and status.
- On paper, we're a one-person-one-vote nation; in reality, we're more than a bit of an oligarchy, in which a handful of wealthy people dominate.
- He used a specially-arranged series of interviews during the Commonwealth summit yesterday to mount a stout defence of his position.
- Richard and his friends, he reminds us constantly, are wealthy, beautiful, aloof from the slings and arrows of dowdiness and paying bills and slogging it out in monotonous jobs.
- With the usual prerogative of the wealthy classes, he tended to choose doctors with a reputation for having studied some topics in greater detail than usual.
- Giving is the highest expression of potency. In the very act of giving, I experience my strength, my wealth, my power. This experience of heightened vitality and potency fills me with joy. I experience myself as overflowing, spending, alive, hence as joyous. Giving is more joyous than receiving, not because it is a deprivation, but because in the act of giving lies the expression of my aliveness. Erich Fromm
- The Duke and Duchess were so wealthy that they seemed to have money coming out of their ears.
- His personal wealth is estimated at around $100 million.