Affluent
['æflʊənt] or ['æfluənt]
Definition
(noun.) an affluent person; a person who is financially well off; 'the so-called emerging affluents'.
(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' .
Editor: Whitney--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Flowing to; flowing abundantly.
(a.) Abundant; copious; plenteous; hence, wealthy; abounding in goods or riches.
(n.) A stream or river flowing into a larger river or into a lake; a tributary stream.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Abundant, exuberant.[2]. Opulent, wealthy, rich, moneyed.
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Definition
adj. abounding: wealthy (with in).—n. a stream flowing into a river or lake.—ns. Af′fluence abundance: wealth; Af′fluency (obs.).—adv. Af′fluently.—n. Af′fluentness.
Editor: Lyle
Examples
- It is well watered, and its affluent vegetation gains effect by contrast with the barren hills that tower on either side. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I had the happiness to know you in former times, and the Drama has ever had a claim which has ever been acknowledged, on the noble and the affluent. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- We could have felt affluent if we had been officially surveyed and fenced in. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- They were not, so far as I could judge, of any great value, nor did the bank-book show that Mr. Oldacre was in such very affluent circumstances. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
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