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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
wealthy
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a poor/wealthy district (=where a lot of people are poor/rich)
▪ He lived in one of London’s poorest districts.
a privileged/wealthy background
▪ All the top jobs were taken by people from privileged backgrounds.
a rich/wealthy nation
▪ Most tourists come from the wealthy nations of the world.
a wealthy businessman
▪ The ship was owned by a wealthy businessman.
a wealthy individual (=a wealthy person)
▪ Large ranches are often owned by corporations or wealthy individuals.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
extremely
▪ He had left as a poor, working class boy and returned as an extremely wealthy man.
▪ Mention the average client rather than an extremely wealthy one-unless you helped him or her get that way.
▪ They went to Cartier's in the Landmark, the black and gold shopping mall for the extremely wealthy.
▪ There are a lot of extremely wealthy people here.
▪ It is well to remember that Susanna Jennens with her £300 per year was not extremely wealthy.
▪ As a civilization, it was solidly based in extremely wealthy areas, alongside which Arabia then seemed very poor.
fabulously
▪ Everybody I met would surely be either fabulously wealthy, extremely intelligent or both.
▪ In short they are all now fabulously wealthy.
immensely
▪ After all, he was an eminently eligible man, attractive and immensely wealthy.
▪ The order grew immensely wealthy and place names all over the country still remind us of lands that they once owned.
▪ After all, he was an immensely wealthy man.
▪ Like Hope, he was immensely wealthy, and was able to combine passive politics with active art patronage and writing.
less
▪ Today, the Department approved grant-maintained status for five schools in wealthy, middle-class and less wealthy areas in that borough.
▪ But that would not make them less wealthy.
▪ The city remained free until the early sixteenth century but was less wealthy.
▪ The timing also is bad for many people who were already feeling less wealthy because of the downturn in the stock market.
most
▪ Altdorf Altdorf is the capital of the Empire and the most wealthy of the City States.
▪ Even the most wealthy moguls and healthy corporations will take out loans or mortgages to finance homes and equipment.
▪ Two-thirds was owned by the most wealthy 10%.
▪ Thirdly, the competitive nature of capitalism means that only the largest and most wealthy companies will survive and prosper.
▪ Between 1979 and 1985 the proportion of wealth, held by the most wealthy 1 percent fell by only 2 percent.
relatively
▪ In general, such luxury items occur only rarely in Lincoln and the owners may well have been relatively wealthy burghers.
▪ He was over sixty and a relatively wealthy man, with a wife who was financially independent.
very
▪ Some Goblins become very wealthy by trading in this way and the tribe's King becomes exceedingly rich.
▪ Mr Crump is very wealthy and his wife is susceptible.
▪ I have a friend who is very wealthy.
▪ Just occasionally, wooden chests were used as coffins, but only for very wealthy people.
▪ For smokers and the very wealthy, the taxes would be higher.
▪ He seized the assets of all those he held, doubtless exceeding his authority in cases of the very wealthy.
▪ By the time he died, though, he had filed over a thousand patents and was a very wealthy man.
■ NOUN
businessman
▪ For Nina Liebermann, solution was a chance acquaintance with a wealthy businessman.
▪ But the wealthy businessmen who hitherto have been his best customers are counting their change these days.
▪ He picked up a £142,000 payoff from wealthy businessman Braswell when Clinton granted him a pardon on his last day in office.
▪ Terry Lierman, a wealthy businessman and lobbyist, had been considered the leading candidate among Democrats to challenge Morella next year.
▪ It was the natural choice for the landed gentry and a symbol of aspiration for wealthy businessmen.
▪ Arizonans have a habit of embracing wealthy businessmen with virtually no elective experience.
client
▪ This was considered fairer because the amount of advertising time would be small and expensive, which could favour the wealthiest clients.
▪ The firm oversees $ 30 million for wealthy clients.
▪ George attempted a nearly honest living as a part-time thespian, and also as a tutor to the children of wealthy clients.
▪ This did not in fact happen, but the earlier suggestion of it kept some of the wealthier clients on tap.
country
▪ The trend towards slower population growth appeared more and more in wealthier countries and regions.
▪ It is funded by taxpayers of the wealthier countries.
▪ In many wealthy countries, waste is the environmental problem that people care about most.
▪ From wealthy countries, as well as from international investors who are willing to lend the World Bank funds.
▪ Filthy-rich individuals apart, the politics of greed makes no economic sense for the wealthy countries that pursue it.
▪ By these measures, the economic gap between the wealthier countries and the poorer countries is usually diminished.
▪ Do you think this conclusion also applies to wealthier countries?
family
▪ He probably, she thought, came from a wealthy family.
▪ Worn, secondhand clothes in a wealthy family were symbolic of a powerful devaluation.
▪ Frequently the tombs, chapels, hatchments, private pews, and so on, indicate a local wealthy family.
▪ Jane was wealthy; she was working for a wealthy family.
▪ Her parents were both cut off by their wealthy families, following a clandestine marriage in the early 1750s.
▪ She was from a wealthy family and did not need to work.
▪ At Mochlos, there were some rectangular tombs which belonged to wealthy families.
▪ But Catholic, Protestant and other religious leaders expressed fear that tax reforms will favor wealthier families and big business.
farmer
▪ His grandfather, my great-grandfather, had been a wealthy farmer.
▪ I was the daughter of a wealthy farmer and the granddaughter of the wealthiest woman in the county.
▪ The fact that the Ryans were wealthy farmers made no difference.
▪ After all, I began life as the only child of a wealthy farmer.
▪ Ricardo despaired that Parliament was protecting wealthy farmers at the expense of the working poor.
individual
▪ Competition for the custom of wealthy individuals is also growing.
▪ That effectively excludes all but the wealthiest individuals.&038;.
▪ Even quite wealthy individuals confess to conjuring up images of going cold and hungry.
▪ Naturally, the public display of great works of art led to a demand for imitations for enjoyment by wealthy individuals.
▪ Democrats and Republicans raised millions from wealthy individuals, corporations and unions.
▪ It has helped to create a new generation of seriously wealthy individuals and the establishment of a tax system geared to entrepreneurs.
▪ Large ranches are often owned by corporations or wealthy individuals who have the cash to survive a downturn.
investor
▪ Meanwhile insurance experts say the Lloyds losses will affect everyone, not just wealthy investors.
▪ Soros made his fortune by setting up pools of wealthy investors who bet huge sums on global markets.
▪ Both companies are private client stockbrokers, which specialize in managing money for wealthy investors, trusts and charities.
▪ The Clinton Treasury wants to collect more capital gains tax from wealthy investors by closing supposed loopholes.
landowner
▪ Grandfather: Nicholai Alexandrovich Romanov, merchant, and one of the wealthiest landowners in Petrograd.
▪ His father was a wealthy landowner with holdings up and down the lower Delaware.
▪ The concern of the wealthy landowner was to continue as long as possible the wealth and social status of the family.
▪ The Tzeltal and Tojolabal in Chiapas were driven into the rocky highlands after their lush flatlands were taken over by wealthy landowners.
▪ Currently, subsidies that were envisaged as a way of protecting farmers in poor areas are being commercially exploited by wealthy landowners.
▪ A narrow élite among the wealthier landowners and bureaucrats was developing tastes and interests which broke the Orthodox mould.
man
▪ He subsequently became a national figure and a wealthy man before dying in poverty.
▪ Unless it would be for wealthy men interested in acquiring as trophy wives lapsed radicals who look great in workout gear.
▪ Smith died a wealthy man 7 June 1591.
▪ Most of them are wealthy men whose wives raise their children.
▪ A considerable amount of objectivity was necessary if a really wealthy man decided to sweep a Girl off her feet.
▪ But the speaker is not a wealthy man and could dip into campaign coffers, causing more controversy.
▪ A wealthy man, without flying experience, was flown from London to Paris by his pilot.
member
▪ Mr Sayer also hinted at moves to encourage other wealthier members of the association to increase their current contributions.
merchant
▪ The Church of St Havel with its Romanesque foundations was surrounded by the houses of wealthy merchants.
▪ At twenty-eight he was a wealthy merchant and a member of Congress.
▪ Morrice became a moderately wealthy merchant, spending generously on the education of young men for the dissenting ministry.
▪ Under other circumstances, he might have become a wealthy merchant.
▪ By 1816 she had married a wealthy merchant named Hedgeland, who was dead by 1820.
▪ Takes its name from Thomas Gledstane, a wealthy merchant.
nation
▪ He urged wealthy nations to plant tropical hardwoods in desert lands, thereby tripling the area under tropical timber within a century.
▪ But since the War exhibitions have been held at Brussels, Montreal and Osaka by wealthy nations, celebrating their achievements.
▪ Probably by encouraging the world's wealthy nations to build nuclear power stations so that other countries need not follow suit.
parent
▪ It had been financed by blood money, blood money from the wealthy parents of Charles's dead wife.
people
▪ Just occasionally, wooden chests were used as coffins, but only for very wealthy people.
▪ Yet they could not resolve the paradox that their revolutionary aims resulted in goods that only wealthy people could afford.
▪ Surveys within different countries seem to confirm this; the wealthier people in those countries are actually happier than the poorer.
▪ Gains or losses from such investments tend to affect how wealthy people feel and their willingness to spend.
▪ He enjoyed the company of influential and wealthy people, including royalty.
▪ There are a lot of extremely wealthy people here.
▪ Many wealthy people will be prevented by their love of money from entering into the Kingdom.
▪ These wealthy people also bought up precious shoreline land and donated it to the public.
person
▪ But even the wealthiest person in the land is poor without spiritual riches.
suburb
▪ Newcastle City now includes the very wealthy suburb of Gosforth.
▪ The Berzinses' spacious house is in a wealthy suburb of Indianapolis.
woman
▪ Charlotte: Charlotte is a wealthy woman in her early forties who views aromatherapy as nothing more than an upmarket beauty treatment.
Women were crazy about him the most beautiful, the wealthiest women who belonged to the great families.
▪ A wealthy woman in her own right, her personal fortune was recently estimated at £37m.
▪ I was the daughter of a wealthy farmer and the granddaughter of the wealthiest woman in the county.
▪ There were wealthy women whose husbands occupied important official positions.
▪ His savvy with wealthy women accounted for many of his accomplishment5 A charity bearing his name was established in Paris in 1833.
▪ We get wealthy women in here, well-known, good people.
▪ Upon her demise, this wealthy woman bequeathed her entire fortune to a prisoner by the name of Mons.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Joan comes from a wealthy family
▪ She comes from a wealthy family, who own houses in London and Paris.
▪ The new taxes were aimed at the largest and wealthiest corporations.
▪ You would never have guessed from meeting him how immensely wealthy he was.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A young woman does not mate faithfully with a wealthy tycoon.
▪ Born to a wealthy cloth merchant, Francis lived a lavish and irresponsible life.
▪ He is also wealthy enough to buy survival.
▪ He probably, she thought, came from a wealthy family.
▪ It is funded by taxpayers of the wealthier countries.
▪ The Coach House originally provided stabling for a wealthy rector who lived next door.
▪ These are nothing but elitist attempts at separating classes and colors and keeping the poor where the wealthy have put them.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wealthy

Wealthy \Wealth"y\, a. [Compar. Wealthier; superl. Wealthiest.]

  1. Having wealth; having large possessions, or larger than most men, as lands, goods, money, or securities; opulent; affluent; rich.

    A wealthy Hebrew of my tribe.
    --Shak.

    Thou broughtest us out into a wealthy place.
    --Ps. lxvi. 1

  2. 2. Hence, ample; full; satisfactory; abundant. [R.]

    The wealthy witness of my pen.
    --B. Jonson.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
wealthy

late 14c., "happy, prosperous," from wealth + -y (2). Meaning "rich, opulent" is from early 15c. Noun meaning "wealthy persons collectively" is from late 14c.

Wiktionary
wealthy

a. 1 Possessing financial wealth; rich. 2 abundant in quality or quantity; profuse. n. {{context|uncountable|preceded by (term the English)|lang=en}} Rich people.

WordNet
wealthy
  1. adj. having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value; "an affluent banker"; "a speculator flush with cash"; "not merely rich but loaded"; "moneyed aristocrats"; "wealthy corporations" [syn: affluent, flush, loaded, moneyed]

  2. [also: wealthiest, wealthier]

Usage examples of "wealthy".

East was bestowed, by the same influence, on Sabinian, a wealthy and subtle veteran, who had attained the infirmities, without acquiring the experience, of age.

In the volume referred to, it was also related how Peter Bell, an old hermit, had been discovered by means of the Prescott aeroplane, and restored to his brother, a wealthy mining magnate.

Bridge, no matter how wealthy the Agami lords they are bound to might be.

The most wealthy families ruined by partial fines and confiscations, and the great body of his subjects oppressed by ingenious and aggravated taxes.

It did not help that she was a terrible flirt, reckoning herself the belle of the steading, and it did not help that Evrard was a homely man, albeit a wealthy one.

She it was who bestowed his Messiahship by ritually anointing him with spikenard, and if the idea that she was wealthy is correct, then perhaps her influence made the initiatory and magical rite of the Crucifixion possible.

Mount Athos, and assaulted the city of Thessalonica, the wealthy capital of all the Macedonian provinces.

The farm was in profit, the rents from the village brought in sufficient revenue to see to repairs, and his inheritance from the Basher had left him a wealthy man.

The daughter of a wealthy coal owner from County Durham, she brought the consolations of the Quaker faith to her enforced marriage with the Basher, and she needed them.

Better, far better, had I resisted the calls of my country, and remained with you, than to return and find my happiness gone, and my family beggared, and tossing on the rough billows of adversity, unheeded by the wealthy, and unfriended by all.

A wealthy merchant in bijouterie and glass does not ordinarily meddle with violent robbery in trains, nor drive up into the mountains to compromise himself by being seen with wanted characters near the scene of fresh crimes.

The scandal had put the house off limits to the wealthy clientele who had frequented the bordello and enjoyed its pleasures.

The Menagier of Paris, a wealthy bourgeois contemporary of Enguerrand VII, who at the age of sixty in 1392 wrote a book of domestic and moral instruction for his young wife, had read or possessed the Bible, The Golden Legend, St.

Beloved of her foster-child, she had become perpetually installed at Court, married to a wealthy Moor named Cabane, who was raised to the dignity of Grand Seneschal of the kingdom, whereby the sometime washerwoman found herself elevated to the rank of one of the first ladies of Naples.

Better coinless and alive than a wealthy corpse when war sears up and down the Vale again.