adj
Meaning 1
Possessing financial wealth; rich.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
wealthy
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /ˈwɛl.θi/
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India, North: /ˈʋɛːl.d̪iː/
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India, North: /ˈʋɛːl.t̪hiː/
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India, South: /ˈʋel.d̪iː/
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India, South: /ˈʋel.t̪(h)iː/
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rhymes with -ɛlθi
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CMU ARPABET: W EH1 L TH IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adj
Meaning 2
Abundant in quality or quantity; profuse.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
Synonym of rich: the wealthy people of a society or of the world collectively.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, plural, plural-only, uncountable
Examples
- The wealthy pay most of the taxes but the uberwealthy hardly pay any at all: they hold stock and property and live off debt borrowed against that collateral.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: rich
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
A rich person.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncommon
Examples
- F. Scott Fitzgerald never got over Ginevra King's dad reminding him he wasn't a wealthy and needed to aim lower.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
A certain cultivar of American apple from Minnesota.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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adjective satellite
Meaning 6
having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- an affluent banker
- a speculator flush with cash
- not merely rich but loaded
- moneyed aristocrats
- wealthy corporations
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: affluent, flush, loaded, moneyed
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From Middle English welthy, welþi, equivalent to wealth + -y. Cognate with Middle Dutch weldech, weeldech (“magnificent, luscious, lavish”).
Named by Peter Gideon (1820–1899), creator of the cultivar, after his wife, Wealthy (Hull) Gideon.
Across languages
Translations
113 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Afrikaans: ryk — rich
- Arabic: غَنِيّ (ḡaniyy) — rich
- Asturian: adineráu — rich
- Asturian: ricu — rich
- Belarusian: бага́ты (baháty) — rich
- Bulgarian: богат (bogat) — rich
- Bulgarian: заможен (zamožen) — rich
- Catalan: adinerat — rich
- Catalan: ric — rich
- Chinese Mandarin: 富有 (fùyǒu) — rich
- Chinese Mandarin: 富裕 (fùyù) — rich
- Esperanto: riĉa — rich
- Finnish: varakas — rich
- Finnish: äveriäs — rich
- French: riche — rich
- French: nanti — rich
- Galician: adiñeirado — rich
- Galician: rico — rich
- Galician: ricaz — rich
- Georgian: მდიდარი (mdidari) — rich
- German: wohlhabend — rich
- German: reich — rich
- Gothic: 𐌲𐌰𐌱𐌹𐌲𐍃 (gabigs) — rich
- Greek: εύπορος (éfporos) — rich
- Greek: πλούσιος (ploúsios) — rich
- Ancient Greek: εὔπορος (eúporos) — rich
- Ancient Greek: πλούσιος (ploúsios) — rich
- Hebrew: אָמִיד (amíd) — rich
- Hindi: अमीर (amīr) — rich
- Hindi: धनी (dhanī) — rich
- Hindi: संपन्न (sampann) — rich
- Hungarian: gazdag — rich
- Hungarian: vagyonos — rich
- Ingrian: rikas — rich
- Ingrian: rahakas — rich
- Ingrian: karvain — rich
- Ingrian: rahalliin — rich
- Ingrian: paksu — rich
- Irish: maoineach — rich
- Irish: maoinmhar — rich
- Italian: benestante — rich
- Italian: abbiente — rich
- Italian: agiato — rich
- Italian: facoltoso — rich
- Italian: denaroso — rich
- Italian: danaroso — rich
- Italian: ricco — rich
- Japanese: 裕福な (yūfuku na) — rich
- Japanese: 豊かな (yutaka na) — rich
- Japanese: 富有な (fuyū na) — rich
- Japanese: 金持の (kanemochi no) — rich
- Korean: 풍부한 (pungbuhan) — rich
- Central Kurdish: دۆڵەمەند (dollemend) — rich
- Central Kurdish: خاوەن پارە — rich
- Latin: dīves — rich
- Latin: dīs — rich
- Latin: locuplēs — rich
- Latvian: turīgs — rich
- Latvian: mantīgs — rich
- Occitan: ric — rich
- Occitan: amonedat — rich
- Old English: rīċe — rich
- Persian: پولدار (puldâr) — rich
- Persian: ثروتمند (servatmand) — rich
- Polish: bogaty — rich
- Polish: zamożny — rich
- Portuguese: rico — rich
- Romanian: bogat — rich
- Romanian: avut — rich
- Russian: бога́тый (bogátyj) — rich
- Russian: состоя́тельный (sostojátelʹnyj) — rich
- Russian: зажи́точный (zažítočnyj) — rich
- Russian: обеспе́ченный (obespéčennyj) — rich
- Sanskrit: धन्य (dhánya) — rich
- Sanskrit: धनिक (dhanika) — rich
- Sanskrit: ईशान (īśāna) — rich
- Sanskrit: रयि (rayi) — rich
- Lower Sorbian: bogaty — rich
- Spanish: adinerado — rich
- Spanish: rico — rich
- Spanish: próspero — rich
- Spanish: acomodado — rich
- Spanish: ficho — rich
- Spanish: fichudo — rich
- Swedish: rik — rich
- Swedish: förmögen — rich
- Swedish: välbärgad — rich
- Telugu: ధనిక (dhanika) — rich
- Telugu: సంపన్న (sampanna) — rich
- Thai: มั่งคั่ง (mâng-kâng) — rich
- Thai: มั่งมี (mâng-mii) — rich
- Thai: รวย (ruai) — rich
- Thai: ร่ํารวย — rich
- Tibetan: ཕྱུག་པོ (phyug po) — rich
- Tocharian B: śāte — rich
- Tocharian B: ekaññetstse — rich
- Turkish: zengin — rich
- Turkish: varlıklı — rich
- Turkish: varsıl — rich
- Ukrainian: бага́тий (bahátyj) — rich
- Urdu: امیر (amīr) — rich
- Vietnamese: giàu — rich
- Volapük: benolabik — rich
- Volapük: liegik — rich
- Welsh: cyfoethog — rich
- Afrikaans: ryk — abundant
- Bulgarian: изобилен (izobilen) — abundant
- Finnish: runsas — abundant
- Finnish: rikas — abundant
- Greek: πλούσιος (ploúsios) — abundant
- Portuguese: farto — abundant
- Turkish: bol — abundant
- Turkish: zengin — abundant
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