wealthy

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Having a lot of money and valuable possessions; rich.

   They live in a wealthy neighbourhood near the lake.

2. 2
   noun

   Rich people considered as a group.

   The new tax mainly affects the wealthy.

From Middle English welthy, welþi, equivalent to wealth + -y. Cognate with Middle Dutch weldech, weeldech (“magnificent, luscious, lavish”).

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