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wealth.

Riches; a great amount of valuable assets or material possessions.

6 characters1 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/wɛlθ/[wɛl̪θ]
  1. Riches; a great amount of valuable assets or material possessions.

    uncountable
    Money talks, but true wealth whispers.
  2. A great amount; an abundance or plenty.

    countable
    She brings a wealth of knowledge to the project.
  3. Prosperity; well-being; happiness.

    obsolete · uncountable
Where this word comes from

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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