- a large amount of money and valuable material possessions
- the state of being rich
- a great profusion: a wealth of gifts
- all goods and services with monetary, exchangeable, or productive value
WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2026
wealth /wɛlθ/USA pronunciation
n.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026- Business[uncountable] a great deal of money, property, or possessions.
- a large amount of something;
an abundance:[countable]a wealth of information.
wealth
(welth),USA pronunciation n.
wealth′less, adj.
- Businessa great quantity or store of money, valuable possessions, property, or other riches:the wealth of a city.
- an abundance or profusion of anything;
plentiful amount:a wealth of imagery. - Business[Econ.]
- all things that have a monetary or exchange value.
- anything that has utility and is capable of being appropriated or exchanged.
- rich or valuable contents or produce:the wealth of the soil.
- the state of being rich;
prosperity;
affluence:persons of wealth and standing. - [Obs.]happiness.
- 1200–50; Middle English welth (see well1, -th1); modeled on health
- 2. richness, amplitude, fullness. 3. a. possessions, assets, goods, property, money. 5. opulence, fortune.
- 5. poverty.
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wealth /wɛlθ/ n
'wealth' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
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- affluence
- affluential
- aggrandize
- begrudgery
- big
- bonanza
- bride price
- capital
- caste
- chattel
- Classical school
- comedown
- commodity
- copious
- Diwali
- enrich
- estate
- fabulous
- fortune
- front
- go
- Golconda
- gold
- gold-digger
- great
- greed
- greedy
- have
- have-not
- heiress
- immensity
- infinite
- influence
- leisured
- loot
- lucre
- mammon
- means
- megalomania
- mercantilism
- meritocracy
- money-spinner
- nouveau riche
- opulent
- pelf
- physiocrat
- plenty
- plutocracy
- Plutus