Meanings
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1
adj
Showing great wealth and luxury; richly grand.
They were married in an opulent hotel filled with chandeliers and marble floors.
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2
adj
Rich and abundant in quality or quantity.
The garden was opulent with roses of every imaginable colour.
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Etymology
Borrowed from Latin opulēns, opulentus, from ops (“wealth, power, resources”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃op- (“to work; produce in abundance”).
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