WordNet
n. a man who is wealthy [syn: man of means, rich man]
Usage examples of "wealthy man".
He will never be a wealthy man, for the moment he has a coin to spare, it goes for another horse or to buy more pasturage.
The Lady Varella's husband had been a wealthy man, with an even wealthier family.
D'Artagnan, so intimately acquainted with all the court intrigues, who knew the position of Fouquet better even than Fouquet himself did, had conceived the strangest fancies and suspicions at the announcement of the fete, which would have ruined a wealthy man, and which became impossible, utter madness even, for a man so destitute as he was.
And this was the life of the only daughter of an important and relatively wealthy man!
Thus, Lisa believed her mother to be the very young widow of an extremely wealthy man, whose wealth, in turn, had made her mother one of the wealthiest women in the world.
Formerly all pecuniary questions, especially requests for money to which, as an extremely wealthy man, he was very exposed, produced in him a state of hopeless agitation and perplexity.
Uncle Tadai's been taking care of me, but Mistress Kaline says it's only common sense that he marry me to a wealthy man who wants a noble wife.