wealth
pronunciation
How to pronounce wealth in British English:
UK [welθ]
How to pronounce wealth in American English:
US [welθ]
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- Noun:
- the state of being rich and affluent; having a plentiful supply of material goods and money
- the quality of profuse abundance
- an abundance of material possessions and resources
- property that has economic utility: a monetary value or an exchange value
Word Origin
- wealth
- wealth: [13] The now virtually defunct weal [OE] meant ‘welfare’, and also ‘riches’; it was descended from prehistoric West Germanic *welon, a derivative of the same base as produced English well. The abstract-noun suffix -th was added to it in early Middle English to produce wealth. This also originally meant ‘welfare, well-being’ as well as ‘riches’, a sense which now survives only in the compound commonwealth [15].=> well
- wealth (n.)
- mid-13c., "happiness," also "prosperity in abundance of possessions or riches," from Middle English wele "well-being" (see weal (n.1)) on analogy of health.
Antonym
Example
- 1. The war destroyed that wealth .
- 2. The wealth is trickling down .
- 3. Luanda has vast oil wealth .
- 4. Wealth does not stop it .
- 5. Importing human capital generates wealth .