See Also: wealth(dictionary)
wealth(dictionary)
Wealth tax(finance)
WEALTH(finance)
CARRY WEALTH(finance)
Wealth effect(finance)
National Wealth(money)
Dundee Wealth Management(finance)
World investible wealth(finance)
World investible wealth(money)

wealth (iou)



wealth noun. ME.
[from WELL adverb or WEAL noun1 + -TH1, after health.]
arch.
a. = WEAL noun1 2. ME.
b. An instance or kind of prosperity; a blessing. Usu. in pl. ME.
c. = COMMONWEAL 2. LME.
Abundance of valuable possessions or money; the state or condition of possessing this; material prosperity, opulence, affluence. ME.
E. Heath There was no display of wealth; that came later..when I saw the crown jewels. J. Aiken I summoned Parkson...How easily..we acquire the habits of wealth.
b. In pl. Valuable or expensive goods; luxuries. LME-M16.
c. Degree of material prosperity. E-M17.
d. The valuable possessions or products characteristic of a people or country; the collective riches of a people or country. M17.
A. Trollope Not for all the wealth of India would he have given up his lamb to that..wolf.
e. A particular product considered as the chief source of a country's riches. M17.
Spiritual well-being. Freq. in for the wealth of one's soul. LME-M16.
Plenty; abundance or profusion of a specified thing. L16.
Clive James Immediately you are impressed by the wealth of detail.
Economics. A possession or possessions considered useful and having an exchangeable value. E19.
Comb.: wealth tax: levied on the basis of a person's capital or financial assets.
wealthful adjective (now rare or obsolete) rich, wealthy, prosperous ME.
wealthless adjective (rare) E17.