wealth
Meaning
- Riches; a great amount of valuable assets or material possessions.
- A great amount; an abundance or plenty.
- (obsolete) Prosperity; well-being; happiness.
Synonyms
affluence
fecundicity
wellfare
worldly goods
national wealth
wealthy man
common property
richess
landed revenues
good circumstances
hard currency
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/wɛlθ/
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English welth, welthe (“happiness, prosperity”), from Old English *welþ, weleþu, 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. Cognate with 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.
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