wealth

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the quality of profuse abundance

   They have a wealth of talent.

2. 2
   noun

   Riches; a great amount of valuable assets or material possessions.

   Money talks, but true wealth whispers.

3. 3
   noun

   A great amount; an abundance or plenty.

   She brings a wealth of knowledge to the project.

4. 4
   noun

   Prosperity; well-being; happiness.

   I once did lend my body for his wealth, / Which, but for him that had your husband's ring, / Had quite miscarried: […]

5. 5
   noun

   property that has economic utility: a monetary value or an exchange value

6. 6
   noun

   an abundance of material possessions and resources

7. 7
   noun

   the state of being rich and affluent

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English welth, welthe (“happiness, prosperity”), from Old English *welþ, *welþu, from Proto-West Germanic *waliþu (“wealth”). Alternatively, possibly an alteration (due to similar words in -th: compare helth (“health”), derth (“dearth”)) of wele (“wealth, well-being, weal”), from Old English wela (“wealth, prosperity”), from Proto-Germanic *walô (“well-being, prosperity”), from Proto-Indo-European *wel- (“good, best”); equivalent to weal + -th (abstract nominal suffix). Cognate with Dutch weelde (“wealth”), Low German weelde (“wealth”), Old High German welida, welitha (“w…