wealthn.
/wɛlθ/, U.S. /wɛlθ/ a. of a person.
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the world > action or operation > prosperity > [noun]
selthc888
healc950
wealOE
goder-heala1225
prosperity?c1225
wealtha1300
statec1300
healtha1325
welfare1357
theedom1362
wealfulnessc1374
bonchiefa1387
felicity1393
boota1400
wella1400
wealsc1400
well-doingc1440
prosperancea1460
happiness?1473
quartfulness1483
brightnessa1500
goodnessa1500
sonsea1500
thriftiness?1529
prosperation1543
well-being1561
prosperousness1600
fair world1641
thrivingness1818
goldenness1829
palminess1875
a1300 Cursor Mundi 755 Adam ȝode walkand in þat welth.
a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 1550 And bad him [Esau] of his kindes louerd ben, In welðe and migt wurðinge ðen.
c1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 1288, 1290 And in welthe men wald ay be; Bot parfit men, þat þair lif right ledes, Welthe of þe worlde ay flese and dredes.
c1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 1293 Worldly welthe.
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) vi. xiii. 197 Noo man hath more welth [L. nullus est felicior] than he that hath a gode woman to his wyfe.
1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur ix. xxxvii. 400 But whanne sekenes toucheth a prysoners body thenne may a prysoner say al welthe is hym berafte.
a1500 (?c1450) Merlin xxxiii. 680 The grete love that I haue to you hath made me forsake alle other.., for with-oute yow haue I neither ioye ne welthe.
1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. Pref. Aboue all thynges, wherby mans welthe ryseth, speciall laude and cause ought to be gyuen to historie.
1526 Bible (Tyndale) 1 Cor. x. 24 Lett no man seke his awne prophet: but lett every man seke his neghbours welthe.
1544 Letanie in Exhort. vnto Prayer sig. Bvi In all time of our tribulation, in all tyme of our wealthe.
1549 Bk. Common Prayer (STC 16267) Svpper of the Lorde f. cxxij To preserue thy people..in wealth, peace, and Godlynes.
1559 Bk. Common Prayer (STC 16292a Prelim. No. 2) Letany sig. B.iiiiv Graunt her in health and wealthe longe to liue.
?1592 Trag. Solyman & Perseda v. i. 24 Vpon great affaires, Importuning health and wealth of Soliman, His highnes by me intreateth you.
1596 C. Fitzgeffry Sir Francis Drake sig. G7 And ô long may wee have them, and enioy These worthies, to our welth, and thine annoy.
1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice v. i. 249 I once did lend my body for his wealth . View more context for this quotation
b. Contrasted with woe, wandreth, care.
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a1300 Cursor Mundi 23981 Wede o welth wil i namar, Clething wil i me tak o care.
c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace (Rolls) 2462 Welþe a-wey to wo þou [Fortune] strykes.
1357 Lay Folks' Catech. (T.) 433 Euenly to sofir the wele and the wa, Welthe or wandreth, whethir so betides.
a1529 J. Skelton Poems against Garnesche in Poet Wks. (1843) I. 130 Wherfore in welthe beware of woo.
a1542 T. Wyatt Coll. Poems (1969) lxxvi. 8 I trust somtyme my harme may be my helth, Syns every wo is joynid with some welth.
a1566 R. Edwards Damon & Pithias (1571) sig. Hiijv In wealth a double ioye, in woe a present stay, A sweete compagnion in eche state true Friendship is alway.
c. Of the world, a country, town, community, its people or members; hence (the common or public) welfare. Cf. commonwealth n. 2, public n. 4a.
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the world > action or operation > advantage > [noun] > relation in respect of > general or public
wealth1390
common gooda1393
the sum of things?c1400
public good1427
commonweal1429
weal1444
commonwealtha1450
public weala1470
common publicc1475
weal-public1495
public wealth1541
public welfare1579
publica1586
public interest1591
the public (also general) concern1707
summa rerum1715
1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis Prol. 95 The world stod thanne in al his welthe: Tho was the lif of man in helthe, Tho was plente, tho was richesse.
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) viii. l. 1610 Was neuir befor..Sic welth and pes at-anys in the land.
1490 Little Red Bk. Bristol (1900) II. 126 In divers matiers concernyng the welth of the same Town.
1521 Cov. Leet Bk. 672 For the worship of the Cyte or the welthe of the Craft.
a1525 ( Coventry Leet Bk. (1908) II. 290 Your own souerayn lorde & kynge..Whome God..preserve in good helthe..to this landys welthe!
?c1535 L. Cox Arte Rhethorycke (new ed.) sig. Aviv That the maker of the lawe apply his hole studye to the welth of his subiectes.
1550 J. Coke Deb. Heraldes Eng. & Fraunce sig. Hviv You enpeche the welth of marchaundise, pyllyng & robbyng the christen people.
1551 R. Robinson tr. T. More Vtopia sig. Nii The inuentyon of feates, helpynge annye thynge to the aduantage and wealthe of lyffe.
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Wealthe of a comminaltye, bonum publicum, respublica.
1557 T. North tr. A. de Guevara Diall Princes 454 He alwaies studied the wealth of his people.
1607 Statutes in M. H. Peacock Hist. Free Gram. School Wakefield (1892) iv. 56 And when I shall knowe any thinge..that..toucheth the welth or good order of this schole, I will call my fellowe governours together.
d. An instance or kind of prosperity; a felicity, blessing. Chiefly plural.The plural is also used as in 3b.
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the world > action or operation > prosperity > [noun] > instances of
wealtha1300
prosperities1340
prospering?1567
well-beings1643
a1300 Cursor Mundi 23432 O welthes mar mai na man tell, þan haf to will o welth þe well.
1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 1319 For angres mans lyf clenses, and proves, And welthes his lif trobles and droves.
c1430 Hymns Virg. (1867) 86 Whi is þis world biloued þat fals is & veyn, Siþen þat hise welþis ben so unserteyn?
1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. clxxxii. 88 b/2 They sayd howe the noble men of the realme of Fraunce, knyghtes and squyers shamed the realme, and that it shulde be a great welth to dystroy them all.
1548 W. Patten Exped. Scotl. Pref. d j b Whyche shoulde be greatly for the wealthes of vs bothe.
1560 Irish Act 2 Eliz. c. 5 §1 That it hath pleased God..to preserue and keepe for vs and our wealths your royall Maiestie..to raigne ouer vs.
a1652 R. Brome Queen & Concubine iii. ii. 47 in Five New Playes (1659) And show The Elder sort how to improve Their Wealths by Neighbour-hood and Love.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > [noun] > sphere of politics or affairs of state
of statea1549
politicals1621
politics1680
wealtha1682
affairs1697
a1682 Sir T. Browne Certain Misc. Tracts (1683) x. 160 Julius Cæsar..was once in mind to translate the Roman wealth unto it [Troy].
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society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > soul > [noun] > health of
lifeOE
soul-heala1225
soul healtha1393
wealthc1400
c1400 Lay-Folks Mass-bk. 30 (MS. F) And alle that hit hereth to here soules helthe, Thu [Lord] help hem with thi grace and thi welthe.
c1450 Godstow Reg. 652 For the helthe of her owne sowle and the welthe of her husbond.
1463 in F. W. Weaver Somerset Medieval Wills (1901) 201 And where as there can nott be soo hasty recompense as nedid for the welth of my soule therefore [etc.].
1483 Act 1 Rich. III c. 2 §1 Such memorialles as they had ordeigned to be done for the welth of their soules.
1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection i. sig. Fiiv It is all thynges that necessarely is requyred to the welth and helthe of mannes soule.
?1529 R. Hyrde tr. J. L. Vives Instr. Christen Woman ii. iv. sig. a.iiij She..procured bothe suche as was for the welthe of his soule, and prepared holsome meates for his body.
1537 Inst. Christen Man (new ed.) A 7 I Beleue..that this Christe..liued..and..suffred..for our sakes, and for our welthe.
1553 Prymmer or Bk. Priuate Prayer sig. U.iii As shal be moste metest and agreable to thyne honor and glory & to my moste perfecte wealth and euerlastynge saluacion.
3. personified.1712 E. Budgell Spectator No. 506. ¶2 I have somewhere met with a Fable that made Wealth the Father of Love.1813 Ld. Byron Giaour (ed. 4) 15 Alike must Wealth and Poverty Pass heedless and unheeded by.† b. in plural, with reference to more than one possessor. Obsolete.† c. plural. Things in which material riches consist; rich and costly goods or possessions; luxuries. Obsolete.† g. Condition with regard to riches or poverty; degree of wealthiness. Obsolete.
a. Prosperity consisting in abundance of possessions; ‘worldly goods’, valuable possessions, esp. in great abundance: riches, affluence.In modern use wealth tends to be felt as a stronger term than riches.
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the mind > possession > wealth > wealth or riches > [noun]
wealc888
ednessa1200
richessea1200
richdomc1225
richesses?c1225
wealtha1275
richesc1275
winc1275
warison1297
wonea1300
merchandisec1300
aver1330
richesc1330
substancea1382
abundancec1384
suffisance1390
talenta1400
pelf?a1505
opulence?1518
wealthsa1533
money bag1562
capital1569
opulency1584
affluency1591
affluence1593
exuberance1675
nabobism1784
money1848
the mind > possession > wealth > wealth or riches > [noun] > personified
wealtha1275
richessea1425
a1275 Prov. Ælfred 382 Werldes welðe to wurmes shal wurþien.
a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 2374 Of alle egiptes welðhe best Gaf he is breðere.
a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 796 God gaf him ðor siluer and gold And hird and orf and srud and sat, Vn-achteled welðe he ðor bi-gat.
1352 L. Minot Poems vii. 153 For here es welth inogh to win, To make vs riche for euermore.
a1400–50 Wars Alex. 3582 Oure boundis ere barrayne and bare and þine full of welth.
1447 O. Bokenham Faith in Lyvys Seyntys 303 Alle these profers hye Of wurshyp welt or of dygnyte Wych dacyan hym hycht he set not a stye.
?1507 W. Dunbar Tua Mariit Wemen (Rouen) in Poems (1998) I. 54 Quhen he had warit all one me his welth and his substance Me thoght his wit wes all went away with the laif.
1567 Compend. Bk. Godly Songs (1897) 51 For all this warldis welth and gude, Can na thing ryche thy celsitude.
1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Eiii/1 Welth, abundantia rerum.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. vii. sig. S2 What art thou man..That..These rich hils of welth doest hide apart From the worldes eye?
a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) i. ii. 13 Iulia. What think'st thou of the rich Mercatio? Lucetta. Well of his wealth; but of himselfe, so, so. View more context for this quotation
1639 J. Clarke Paroemiologia 99 Wealth makes worship.
1701 D. Defoe True-born Englishman i. 24 Wealth, howsoever got, in England makes Lords of Mechanicks, Gentlemen of Rakes.
1746 W. Dunkin tr. Horace in P. Francis & W. Dunkin tr. Horace Epistles ii. ii. 45 He..sack'd a royal Fort, Replete with various Wealth.
1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones III. viii. xi. 245 My female Companion..at first remonstrated against it, but upon producing my Wealth, she immediately consented. View more context for this quotation
1770 O. Goldsmith Deserted Village 62 His best companions, innocence and health; And his best riches, ignorance of wealth.
1796 H. Hunter tr. J.-H. B. de Saint-Pierre Stud. Nature (1799) II. 577 There the man of wealth would be instructed really to practise virtue.
1809 T. Campbell Gertrude of Wyoming ii. xxiv More than all the wealth that loads the breeze, When Coromandel's ships return from Indian seas.
1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop i. vii. 119 Sole inheritor of the wealth of this rich old hunks.
1842 Ld. Tennyson Lady Clara Vere de Vere in Poems (new ed.) I. 158 In glowing health, with boundless wealth.
1861 M. Pattison in Westm. Rev. Apr. 415 All this material wealth and splendour was of course in official connexion with the Church.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > wealth > wealth or riches > [noun]
wealc888
ednessa1200
richessea1200
richdomc1225
richesses?c1225
wealtha1275
richesc1275
winc1275
warison1297
wonea1300
merchandisec1300
aver1330
richesc1330
substancea1382
abundancec1384
suffisance1390
talenta1400
pelf?a1505
opulence?1518
wealthsa1533
money bag1562
capital1569
opulency1584
affluency1591
affluence1593
exuberance1675
nabobism1784
money1848
a1533 Ld. Berners tr. A. de Guevara Golden Bk. M. Aurelius (1537) f. 157v Many leaue dyuers welthes that they haue in straunge landes, and lyue straitly, for to lyue in their owne land.
1574 J. Higgins 1st Pt. Mirour for Magistrates Albanacte lxiii To late you shall repent the act When all my realme, and all your wealthes are sackt.
1650 R. Stapleton tr. F. Strada De Bello Belgico ii. 48 He would be supported by the counsels and wealths of forrein Princes.
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the mind > possession > wealth > wealth or riches > [noun] > things in which wealth consists
wealths1352
1352 L. Minot Poems x. 11 In holl þan þai hided grete welthes,..Of gold and of siluer, of skarlet and grene.
1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. x. 83 Þe more he wynneth and welt welthes & ricchesse.
c1400 Sege Melayne 801 The Bischoppe..pyghte Pauylyons with mekill pryde, With wyne & welthes at will.
a1525 (c1448) R. Holland Bk. Howlat l. 847 in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1925) II. 121 All yus yir hathillis in hall heirly remanit With all welthis at wiss and worschipe to vale.
1551 R. Robinson tr. T. More Vtopia sig. Gi Lawes, wherby all men shoulde haue and enioye equall portions of welthes and commodities.
d. Abundance of possessions or of valuable products, as characteristic of a people, country, or region; the collective riches of a people or country.The phrase the wealth of nations had some currency before it was adopted by Adam Smith in the title of his famous work; but its early history is obscure.
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the mind > possession > wealth > wealth or riches > [noun] > wealth of a nation, region, or people
stock1640
wealth1667
national treasure1696
1667 J. Dryden Verses To Dutchess in Annus Mirabilis sig. a2v The winds were hush'd, the waves in ranks were cast..: Those, yet uncertain on whose sails to blow, These, where the wealth of Nations ought to flow.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ii. 2 High on a Throne of Royal State, which far Outshon the wealth of Ormus and of Ind. View more context for this quotation
a1687 W. Petty Polit. Anat. Ireland (1691) 35 'Tis suppos'd that the Wealth of Ireland is about the 1/ 8 or 1/ 10 of that of England.
1737 A. Pope Epist. of Horace i. i. 126 Their Country's wealth our mightier Misers drayin.
1739 Countess of Hartford in Countess of Hartford & Countess of Pomfret Corr. (1805) I. 152 He declared that he would rather live upon his small annuity all his days, than marry a woman he did not previously love, though she possessed the wealth of the Indies.
1752 S. Johnson Rambler No. 202. ⁋6 To be poor, in the epic language, is only not to command the wealth of nations.
1757 W. Burke Acct. European Settlem. Amer. II. vii. xxviii. 274 Our American colonies..pour in upon us a wealth of another kind..from their fisheries.
1776 A. Smith (title) An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations.
1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1778 II. 233 Johnson: As the Spanish proverb says, ‘He, who would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry the wealth of the Indies with him.’
1821 Ld. Byron Marino Faliero (2nd issue) v. i. 129 A city which has open'd India's wealth To Europe.
1858 A. Trollope Dr. Thorne II. xi. 211 Not for all the wealth of India would he have given up his lamb to that young wolf.
e. said of a specific commodity as the chief source of a country's riches. Also with defining word, indicating a particular source.
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the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > worth > [noun] > thing of worth
treasurec1200
margaritea1325
druery1340
store1410
relica1425
gemc1560
Jew's eye1593
worthy1598
wealth1650
gold dust1690
nugget1853
white gold1921
the mind > possession > wealth > wealth or riches > [noun] > a source of wealth > a commodity as
wealth1650
1650 R. Weston Disc. Husbandrie Brabant & Flanders 4 That Land is natural to bear Flax, which is called the Wealth of Flanders.
1854 J. D. Whitney (title) The Metallic Wealth of the United States Described and Compared with that of other Countries.
f. figurative.
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1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice iii. ii. 252 I freely told you all the wealth I had ranne in my vaines, I was a gentleman. View more context for this quotation
1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice iii. v. 52 Yet more quarrelling with occasion, wilt thou shewe the whole wealth of thy wit in an instant. View more context for this quotation
a1627 T. Middleton Witch (1945) ii. i. 692 O honestie's a rare Wealth in a Woman, it knowes no want.
1656 A. Cowley Davideis iv. 133 in Poems To Help seems all his Power, his Wealth to Give; To do much Good his sole Prerogative.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iv. 207 Beneath him..he views To all delight of human sense expos'd..Natures whole wealth . View more context for this quotation
1676 J. Dryden Aureng-Zebe iii. 47 Whom Heav'n would bless, from Pomp it will remove, And make their wealth in privacy and Love.
1695 J. Collier Misc. upon Moral Subj. 157 Those who come last [in the Roll of Time], seem to enter with Advantage. They are Born to the Wealth of Antiquity.
a1771 T. Gray Death of Hoel in Poems (1775) 58 He ask'd no heaps of hoarded gold; Alone in Nature's wealth array'd, He ask'd, and had the lovely maid.
1820 W. Hazlitt Lect. Dramatic Lit. 12 There is no time more..prolific of intellectual wealth.
1868 T. T. Lynch Rivulet (ed. 3) cxlix. 182 Then darkening heavens disclose Their starry wealth.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > wealth > [noun] > degree of
wortha1586
wealth1607
1607 T. Dekker & J. Webster North-ward Hoe i. sig. Bv It shall then bee giuen out, that I'me a Gentlewoman of such a birth, such a wealth,..and so foorth.
1662 W. Petty Treat. Taxes 16 Ignorance of the Number, Trade, and Wealth of the people, is often the reason why the said people are needlesly troubled.
4. Economics. A collective term for those things the abundant possession of which (by a person or a community) constitutes riches, or ‘wealth’ in the popular sense.There has been much controversy among economists as to the precise extent of meaning in which the term should be used. The definition that has been most widely accepted is that of Mill (quot. 18481 below).
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the mind > possession > wealth > wealth or riches > [noun] > things in which wealth consists > of a nation or community
wealth1821
1821 Torrens Ess. Product. Wealth i. 3 When we say, a man of wealth, the term implies quantity, and signifies an abundance of the comforts and luxuries of life. But when we say, agriculture is a source of wealth, the accessory idea of quantity is not implied, and the term comprises the products of agriculture, whether they be raised from one acre or from a million; whether they are capable of subsisting an individual, or a nation.
1825 J. Bentham Rationale Reward 237 All wealth is either the spontaneous production of the earth, or the result of labour, employed in the cultivation of the earth or upon the materials which it yields.
1832 H. Martineau Life in Wilds ii. 23 Whatever lives, or grows, or can be produced, that is necessary or useful, or agreeable to mankind, is wealth.
1848 J. S. Mill Princ. Polit. Econ. I. Prel. Rem. 8 Money, being the instrument of an important public and private purpose, is rightly regarded as wealth; but everything else which serves any human purpose, and which nature does not afford gratuitously, is wealth also.
1848 J. S. Mill Princ. Polit. Econ. I. Prel. Rem. 9 To an individual, anything is wealth, which, though useless in itself, enables him to claim from others a part of their stock of things useful or pleasant. Take for instance, a mortgage of a thousand pounds on a landed estate. This is wealth to the person to whom it brings in a revenue... But it is not wealth to the country; if the engagement were annulled, the country would be neither poorer nor richer.
1848 J. S. Mill Princ. Polit. Econ. I. Prel. Rem. 10 Wealth, then, may be defined, all useful or agreeable things which possess exchangeable value; or in other words, all useful or agreeable things except those which can be obtained, in the quantity desired, without labour or sacrifice.
1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) I. i. 87 An attempt..was made to bring the production and distribution of wealth under the moral rule of right and wrong.
1883 H. Sidgwick Pol. Econ. i. iii. 71 The wealth of any individual is considered to include all useful things—whether material things, as food, clothes, houses, &c., or immaterial things as debts, patents, copyrights, &c.—which..admit of being sold at a certain price. This aggregate is suitably measured by its exchange value; the common standard of value, money, being taken for convenience' sake.
1891 ‘S. C. Scrivener’ Our Fields & Cities xx. 194 The Companies Acts..have not, and will not, create wealth; it is not the function of law to create wealth,—only to regulate its distribution. Wealth is created..by labour.
1920 A. W. Kirkaldy Wealth 15 If this definition [Mill's] be accepted, the importance of abundance disappears. Wealth may be a very small as well as a very big thing. A single pin..has exchange value, it is useful, and is therefore wealth... So is a motor-car or a fine yacht or an Atlantic liner.
5. Plenty, abundance, profusion (of what is specified). Also, the condition of abounding in something valuable.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > abundance > [noun] > an abundance
plentya1250
foison13..
abundance1340
copyc1375
fultha1400
plentya1425
murth?a1450
store1471
sonsea1500
banquet?1507
fouth1535
choice1584
horn of plenty (also abundancec1595
wealth1596
cornucopia1611
rifea1614
copia1713
bumper1759
beaucoup1760
lashings1829
plethora1835
any amount (of)1848
in galore1848
opulence1878
binder1881
lushing1890
1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 42 The firth..quhair gret welth of Salmonte.
1816 W. Scott Old Mortality iv, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. IV. 69 And they hae walth o' beef, that's ae thing certain, for here's a raw hide that has been about the hurdies o' a stot not half an hour syne.
1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam Epil. 208 Again the feast, the speech,..the wealth Of words and wit. View more context for this quotation
1858 N. Hawthorne Jrnl. 24 Jan. in French & Italian Notebks. (1980) i. 48 This wealth of silver, gold, and gems, that adorned the shrines of the saints.
1874 A. H. Sayce Princ. Compar. Philol. vi. 217 The manifold wealth of articulate speech.
1882 J. Rhŷs Celtic Brit. i. 21 There is no reason, however, to suppose that the great wealth of the country in iron ore had been discovered by Cæsar's time.
1894 A. Conan Doyle Mem. Sherlock Holmes 218 With..dark Italian eyes, and a wealth of deep black hair.
Compounds
C1.
a. General attributive (chiefly objective and objective genitive).
(a)
wealth-centre n.
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the mind > possession > wealth > wealth or riches > [noun] > a source of wealth
India1598
Indies1602
goldmine1605
Aladdin's cave1824
Golconda1833
Comstock1866
wealth-centre1890
1890 O. Crawfurd Round Calendar in Portugal 19 The first stronghold and wealth-centre of this ancient kingdom.
wealth-creation n.
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the mind > possession > wealth > wealth or riches > [noun] > creation of wealth
wealth-creation1892
1892 F. W. Bain (title) On the Principle of Wealth-creation.
wealth-creator n.
wealth-holder n.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > wealth > [noun] > rich or wealthy person
rich manOE
richOE
Divesc1386
richlingc1445
stuffed manc1460
cob1548
wealthling1581
tercel-gentle1597
good liver1602
goldfinch1603
fill-sack1641
dorado1643
wealth-monger1654
a man, etc. of fortune1732
nabob1760
nawab1826
rico1844
abounder1876
high roller1876
fat cat1928
richie1954
wealth-holder1957
jet-setter1959
1957 A. C. L. Day Outl. Monetary Econ. ii. 19 Similar considerations will influence many other wealth-holders.
1980 TWA Ambassador Oct. 14/1 Much of the growth in the number of wealthholders in the United States has been among the affluent, but clearly non-wealthy middle-class and upper-middle-class households.
wealth-maker n.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > wealth > wealth or riches > [noun] > creation of wealth > one who
wealth-maker1899
1899 Daily Tel. 11 Oct. 8/7 The wealth-makers whom he always hated.
(b)
wealth-making adj.
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the mind > possession > wealth > wealth or riches > [adjective] > producing or creating wealth
wealth-yielding1888
wealth-producing1896
wealth-creating1964
wealth-making1964
1964 M. McLuhan Understanding Media (1967) x. 111 The Roman Army as a mobile, industrial wealth-making force.
wealth-producing adj.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > wealth > wealth or riches > [adjective] > producing or creating wealth
wealth-yielding1888
wealth-producing1896
wealth-creating1964
wealth-making1964
1896 Daily Tel. 3 Feb. 4/7 The vast wealth-producing industries of the Rand.
wealth-yielding adj.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > wealth > wealth or riches > [adjective] > producing or creating wealth
wealth-yielding1888
wealth-producing1896
wealth-creating1964
wealth-making1964
1888 E. Clodd Story of Creation iv. 30 Rich as are igneous rocks in wealth-yielding mineral veins and ores, they are..destitute of fossils.
wealth-getting adj.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > wealth > wealth or riches > [adjective] > acquiring wealth
wealth-acquiring1879
wealth-getting1904
1904 R. T. Ely & Wicker Elem. Princ. Economics 3 Those social phenomena that are due to the wealth-getting and wealth-using activities of man.
wealth-despising adj.
ΚΠ
1740 J. Dyer Ruins of Rome 18 Th' humble Roof..Of good Evander, wealth-despising King.
wealth-creating adj.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > wealth > wealth or riches > [adjective] > producing or creating wealth
wealth-yielding1888
wealth-producing1896
wealth-creating1964
wealth-making1964
1964 M. McLuhan Understanding Media (1967) x. 110 In the Roman world the army was the work force of a mechanized wealth-creating process.
wealth-bearing adj.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > wealth > wealth or riches > [adjective] > bearing wealth
wealth-bearing1867
1867 J. Macgregor Rob Roy on Baltic xxiv. 269 The mighty, wealth-bearing Thames.
wealth-acquiring adj.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > wealth > wealth or riches > [adjective] > acquiring wealth
wealth-acquiring1879
wealth-getting1904
1879 ‘G. Eliot’ Theophrastus Such xviii. 346 The predominance of wealth-acquiring immigrants.
wealth-monger n.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > wealth > [noun] > rich or wealthy person
rich manOE
richOE
Divesc1386
richlingc1445
stuffed manc1460
cob1548
wealthling1581
tercel-gentle1597
good liver1602
goldfinch1603
fill-sack1641
dorado1643
wealth-monger1654
a man, etc. of fortune1732
nabob1760
nawab1826
rico1844
abounder1876
high roller1876
fat cat1928
richie1954
wealth-holder1957
jet-setter1959
1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 396 These are sawcy Truths to obtrude on the Power-mongers, Wealth-mongers, and Pleasure-mongers of the World.
a1665 J. Goodwin Πλήρωμα τὸ Πνευματικόv (1670) xvii. 476 If the Question should be put to all rich Wealth-Mongers, and Honour-mongers.
wealth-owner n.
wealth-store n.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > wealth > wealth or riches > [noun] > hoarded wealth > treasure
treasure1154
garrison1297
treasury1297
scat1481
thesaur1491
costliness1535
wealth-store1891
1891 G. Meredith Invect. Achilles in Poet. Wks. (1912) 554 Thou mayest gather here plunder and wealth~store.
wealth-worship n.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > wealth > wealth or riches > [noun] > worship of wealth
wealth-worship1850
plutolatrya1891
society > faith > worship > kinds of worship > [noun] > of wealth
wealth-worship1850
plutolatrya1891
1850 G. Grote Hist. Greece VIII. ii. lxvii. 540 Plato was not the man to preach king-worship, or wealth-worship, as social or political remedies.
1879 W. E. Gladstone Gleanings Past Years I. v. 168 The wealth-worship which marks and deforms our time.
wealth-yield n.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > wealth > wealth or riches > [noun] > a yield of wealth
wealth-yield1917
1917 19th Cent. Dec. 1237 Its [sc. the ocean's] wealth-yield appears to be beyond words bounteous.
b.
wealth-fantasy n.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > wealth > wealth or riches > [noun] > fantasy concerning wealth
wealth-fantasy1940
the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > fancy or fantastic notion > deceptive fancy or illusion > [noun] > concerning good life
fool's paradise1462
wealth-fantasy1940
vie en rose1957
1940 ‘G. Orwell’ in Horizon Mar. 181 This kind of thing is a perfectly deliberate incitement to wealth-fantasy.
c. Instrumental.
wealth-elated adj.
ΚΠ
1801 Mrs. Robinson Sylphid II. 149 The report..awakened the jealousy of the wealth-elated baronet.
wealth-encumbered adj.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > wealth > [adjective]
richeOE
eadyOE
richfulc1300
plenteousc1350
wealthyc1380
wealthfula1400
wlouȝa1400
wellc1405
biga1425
goldedc1450
substantious1490
able1516
opulent?1518
substantive1543
strong1581
fat1611
juicy1627
fortuned1632
affluent1652
rhinocerical1688
rough1721
rowthy1792
golden1797
strong-handed1817
well-to-do1831
wealth-encumbered1844
nabobish1857
rhinoceral1860
ingoted1864
tinny1871
pocket-filled1886
oofy1896
nawabi1955
brewstered2001
1844 Ld. Leigh Walks in Country 79 A wealth-encumber'd Peer.
wealth-fraught adj.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > trading vessel > cargo vessel > [adjective] > laden > with spec.
ballasted1552
wealth-fraught1798
ore-carrying1909
1798 B. Johnson Orig. Poems 30 Wealth-fraught keels in safety cut the seas.
C2. † wealth boastingly adv. Obsolete in a way that shows pride in wealth.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pride > ostentation > [adverb]
boggishlya1375
with great renowna1400
jettingly1440
flourishingly?1545
rufflingly1575
flaunt-a-flaunt1576
peacock-like1576
peacockwise1577
peacockly1580
aflaunt1584
vauntingly1593
wealth boastingly1593
prankingly1610
fastuously1654
ostentativelya1658
ostentously1665
ostentatiously1671
showily1755
violently1771
paradingly1792
peacockically1834
peacockishly1834
pretentiously1848
ostensibly1855
slangily1858
peacocky1860
splurgily1887
swankily1924
glitzily1982
1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares T 3 Nothing about them but is wealth-boastingly & elaborately beautified.
wealth tax n. a tax levied on the basis of a person's capital or financial assets.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > tax > types of tax > [noun] > tax assessed in proportion to income or wealth
tot-quot1611
wealth tax1963
1963 Daily Tel. 22 Feb. 26/6 (heading) Wealth tax statement next week.
1974 Guardian 23 Mar. 12/1 The Labour Party..suggested an annual wealth tax starting at 1 per cent on £50,000, and running up to 5 per cent on £400,000 and more.
1976 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Arts Mar. 200/1 Until the final form of wealth tax has been decided it is not possible to decide whether it will be fiscally neutral as regards private woodlands.
Draft additions June 2004
wealth effect n. originally and chiefly U.S. the tendency of a person to spend increasing amounts of money as a result of his or her increase in personal wealth or perception that the economy at large is thriving.
ΚΠ
1948 A. P. Lerner in L. A. Metzler et al. Income, Employment & Public Policy iii. ii. 269 As the amount of money in the hands of the public increases, the public feels itself wealthier... This is part of the ‘wealth effect’. It diminishes the tendency to save, and to work for the sake of saving, and increases demand while it diminishes supply.
1971 N.Y. Times 23 June 63/4 The monetarists were highly skeptical of the wealth effect. Prof. George D. Green..produced a paper to show that the stock market boom and crash of 1929 had had slight effects upon the economy.
2000 G. Soros Open Society iii. 71 The wealth effect of the stock market bubble favored a strong Christmas.
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