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wealth

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12
Words With Friends
12
Letters
6
Pronunciation
/wɛlθ/
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/wɛlθ/ · [wɛl̪θ]

Definition of wealth

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (uncountable)Riches; a great amount of valuable assets or material possessions.
    “Money talks, but true wealth whispers.”
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noun

  1. (uncountable)Riches; a great amount of valuable assets or material possessions.
    “Money talks, but true wealth whispers.”
  2. (countable)A great amount; an abundance or plenty.
    “She brings a wealth of knowledge to the project.”
    “There is a wealth of carved wood inside: from pulpit to pews, screens to lectern, and a large medieval chest made from a hollowed-out log of bog-oak with a massive lid.”
    “Beyond its aim to bring patients the most effective treatments faster, the service is expected to generate a wealth of data on the interplay between DNA, health and lifestyles, which will become a powerful tool for research into cancer and other diseases.”
  3. (obsolete, uncountable)Prosperity; well-being; happiness.
    “I once did lend my body for his wealth, / Which, but for him that had your husband's ring, / Had quite miscarried: […]”
    “Let no man seek his own, but every man another's wealth.”

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Etymology

Inherited from Middle English welth, welthe (“happiness, prosperity”), from Old English *welþ, *welþu, from Proto-West Germanic *waliþu (“wealth”). Alternatively, possibly an alteration (due to similar words in -th: compare helth…

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Inherited from Middle English welth, welthe (“happiness, prosperity”), from Old English *welþ, *welþu, 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 (abstract nominal suffix). Cognate with West Frisian wielde (“wealth”), 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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