noun
Meaning 1
Wealth.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
opulence
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Pronunciation
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noun
Meaning 2
Abundance, bounty, profusion.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
Ostentatious display of wealth and luxury; plushness.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 4
wealth as evidenced by sumptuous living
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: luxury, luxuriousness, sumptuousness
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: wealth, wealthiness
History
Etymology
From French opulence, from Latin opulentia.
Across languages
Translations
39 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Catalan: opulència — wealth
- Chinese Mandarin: 財富 /财富 (cáifù) — wealth
- Chinese Mandarin: 富有 (fùyǒu) — wealth
- Dutch: rijkdom — wealth
- Dutch: weelde — wealth
- Finnish: vauraus — wealth
- German: Reichtum — wealth
- German: Wohlstand — wealth
- Hindi: बहुतायत (bahutāyat) — wealth
- Hindi: संपन्नता (sampannatā) — wealth
- Hungarian: jólét — wealth
- Hungarian: gazdagság — wealth
- Hungarian: vagyon — wealth
- Latin: opēs — wealth
- Latin: opulentia — wealth
- Polish: obfitość — wealth
- Romanian: opulență — wealth
- Russian: бога́тство (bogátstvo) — wealth
- Spanish: opulencia — wealth
- Swedish: rikedom — wealth
- Chinese Mandarin: 豐富 /丰富 (fēngfù) — abundance
- Chinese Mandarin: 充足 (chōngzú) — abundance
- Chinese Mandarin: 豐盛 /丰盛 (fēngshèng) — abundance
- Danish: overflod — abundance
- Dutch: overvloed — abundance
- Finnish: ylenpalttisuus — abundance
- Hindi: बहुतायत (bahutāyat) — abundance
- Hungarian: bőség — abundance
- Russian: изоби́лие (izobílije) — abundance
- Russian: пы́шность (pýšnostʹ) — abundance
- Swedish: överflöd — abundance
- Chinese Mandarin: 炫耀財富 /炫耀财富 (xuànyào cáifù) — ostentatious display of wealth and luxury
- Chinese Mandarin: 豪華 /豪华 (háohuá) — ostentatious display of wealth and luxury
- Finnish: loisto — ostentatious display of wealth and luxury
- Finnish: mahtailu — ostentatious display of wealth and luxury
- Finnish: ylenpalttisuus — ostentatious display of wealth and luxury
- Hungarian: fényűzés — ostentatious display of wealth and luxury
- Russian: ро́скошь (róskošʹ) — ostentatious display of wealth and luxury
- Russian: роско́шество (roskóšestvo) — ostentatious display of wealth and luxury
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