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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 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.
- 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
- It's worth taking chances when you're shooting at a chance of fame and wealth.
- Such a man or woman is slave to his or her social position and wealth.
- We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
- Very wealthy people don't like to be questioned about whether they can support a cheque. Times, Sunday Times
- The decades of peace and accumulation of wealth in the west have not only been arguably bought at the expense of the rest of the world - but also of ourselves.