wealthy

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Possessing financial wealth; rich.

   As a result of these causes the grazier marks himself off fairly sharply from the rest of Australia. He has always spent a considerable proportion of the time in the capital cities, in each of which he has formed a club to which, besides the graziers, only a few of the wealthiest and most prominent of the city dwellers are admitted.

2. 2
   noun

   Synonym of rich: the wealthy people of a society or of the world collectively.

   ... whether consumption patterns of the wealthy are more or less polluting than those of the poor depends on the contaminant in question.

3. 3
   noun

   A rich person.

   F. Scott Fitzgerald never got over Ginevra King's dad reminding him he wasn't a wealthy and needed to aim lower.

4. 4
   noun

   A certain cultivar of American apple from Minnesota.

   Wealthys and McIntoshes are not good bakers.

5. 5
   adj

   having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value

6. 6
   adj

   Abundant in quality or quantity; profuse.

Etymology

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