Opulence
['ɒpjʊl(ə)ns;'ɒpjʊləns] or ['ɑpjələns]
Definition
(n.) Wealth; riches; affluence.
Typed by Gladys
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Wealth, affluence, riches, fortune, independence, easy circumstances, ample means.
Editor: Matt
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Wealth, affluence, riches, fortune
ANT:Poverty, indigence, impecuniosity
Editor: Noreen
Unserious Contents or Definition
For a young woman to dream that she lives in fairy like opulence, denotes that she will be deceived, and will live for a time in luxurious ease and splendor, to find later that she is mated with shame and poverty. When young women dream that they are enjoying solid and real wealth and comforts, they will always wake to find some real pleasure, but when abnormal or fairy-like dreams of luxury and joy seem to encompass them, their waking moments will be filled with disappointments; as the dreams are warnings, superinduced by their practicality being supplanted by their excitable imagination and lazy desires, which should be overcome with energy, and the replacing of practicality on her base. No young woman should fill her mind with idle day dreams, but energetically strive to carry forward noble ideals and thoughts, and promising and helpful dreams will come to her while she restores physical energies in sleep. See Wealth.
Typist: Lucas
Examples
- But, perhaps, no country has ever yet arrived at this degree of opulence. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The cities of Italy seem to have been the first in Europe which were raised by commerce to any considerable degree of opulence. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The act of navigation is not favourable to foreign commerce, or to the growth of that opulence which can arise from it. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Opulence, said St. Just, is infamous. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Families, bred in opulence and luxury, were reduced to beggary. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The estate had formerly belonged to a gentleman of opulence and taste, who had bestowed some considerable attention to the adornment of his grounds. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Some modes of expense, however, seem to contribute more to the growth of public opulence than others. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- As the one mode of expense is more favourable than the other to the opulence of an individual, so is it likewise to that of a nation. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
Editor: Sidney