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rich.

Wealthy: having a lot of money and possessions.

4 characters1 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

adj/ˈɹɪt͡ʃ/[ˈɹʷɪt͡ʃ]
  1. Wealthy: having a lot of money and possessions.

  2. Having an intense fatty or sugary flavour.

    a rich dish; rich cream or soup; rich pastry; a very rich chocolate cake
  3. Remunerative.

  4. Plentiful, abounding, abundant, fulfilling.

    a rich treasury; a rich entertainment; a rich crop
    rich in fiber; rich in traditions
  5. Yielding large returns; productive or fertile; fruitful.

    rich soil or land; a rich mine
  6. Composed of valuable or costly materials or ingredients; procured at great outlay; highly valued; precious; sumptuous; costly.

    a rich endowment; a rich dress; rich silk or fur; rich presents
  7. Not faint or delicate; vivid.

    a rich red colour
  8. Very amusing.

    informal
    The scene was a rich one.
    a rich incident or character
  9. Ridiculous, absurd, outrageous, preposterous, especially in a galling, hypocritical, or brazen way.

    informal
    That's rich, coming from you.
  10. Pornographic; titillating.

    slang · uncommon
  11. Elaborate, having complex formatting, multimedia, or depth of interaction.

  12. Of a solute-solvent solution: not weak (not diluted); of strong concentration.

    mixed up a batch that was quite rich
  13. Of a solute-solvent solution: not weak (not diluted); of strong concentration. Of a fuel-air mixture: having more fuel (thus less air) than is necessary to burn all of the fuel; less air- or oxygen- rich than necessary for a stoichiometric reaction.

  14. Trading at a price level which is high relative to historical trends, a similar asset, or (for derivatives) a theoretical value.

    The ETF is trading rich to NAV right now; we can arb this by selling the ETF and buying the underlying constituents.
Where this word comes from

From Middle English riche (“strong, powerful, rich”), from Old English rīċe (“powerful, mighty, great, high-ranking, rich, wealthy, strong, potent”), from Proto-West Germanic *rīkī (“powerful, rich”), from Proto-Germanic *rīkijaz (“kingly, powerful, rich”), from Proto-Germanic *rīks (“king, ruler”), an early borrowing from Proto-Celtic *rīxs, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs. Reinforced by Old French riche, from the same West Germanic source. Cognate with Dutch rijk, German reich, Danish rig, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish rik, Faroese and Icelandic ríkur, Portuguese and Spanish rico, French riche, Italian ricco.

noun/ˈɹɪt͡ʃ/[ˈɹʷɪt͡ʃ]
  1. The rich people of a society or the world collectively, the rich class of a society.

    plural · plural-only
    When the poor have no more to eat, they will eat the rich.
  2. the second placer in Tycoon

    plural · plural-only
Where this word comes from

From Middle English riche (“strong, powerful, rich”), from Old English rīċe (“powerful, mighty, great, high-ranking, rich, wealthy, strong, potent”), from Proto-West Germanic *rīkī (“powerful, rich”), from Proto-Germanic *rīkijaz (“kingly, powerful, rich”), from Proto-Germanic *rīks (“king, ruler”), an early borrowing from Proto-Celtic *rīxs, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs. Reinforced by Old French riche, from the same West Germanic source. Cognate with Dutch rijk, German reich, Danish rig, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish rik, Faroese and Icelandic ríkur, Portuguese and Spanish rico, French riche, Italian ricco.

verb/ˈɹɪt͡ʃ/[ˈɹʷɪt͡ʃ]
  1. To enrich.

    obsolete · transitive
  2. To become rich.

    intransitive · obsolete
Where this word comes from

From Middle English riche (“strong, powerful, rich”), from Old English rīċe (“powerful, mighty, great, high-ranking, rich, wealthy, strong, potent”), from Proto-West Germanic *rīkī (“powerful, rich”), from Proto-Germanic *rīkijaz (“kingly, powerful, rich”), from Proto-Germanic *rīks (“king, ruler”), an early borrowing from Proto-Celtic *rīxs, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs. Reinforced by Old French riche, from the same West Germanic source. Cognate with Dutch rijk, German reich, Danish rig, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish rik, Faroese and Icelandic ríkur, Portuguese and Spanish rico, French riche, Italian ricco.

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