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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

WEALTH, n.
1. Prosperity; external happiness.
2. Riches; large possessions of money, goods or land; that abundance of worldly estate which exceeds the estate of the greater part of the community; affluence; opulence.
Each day new wealth without their care provides.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the state of being rich and affluent; having a plentiful supply of material goods and money; "great wealth is not a sign of great intelligence" [syn: wealth, wealthiness] [ant: impoverishment, poorness, poverty]
2: the quality of profuse abundance; "she has a wealth of talent"
3: an abundance of material possessions and resources [syn: wealth, riches]
4: property that has economic utility: a monetary value or an exchange value

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Middle English welthe, from wele weal Date: 13th century 1. obsolete weal, welfare 2. abundance of valuable material possessions or resources 3. abundant supply ; profusion 4. a. all property that has a money value or an exchangeable value b. all material objects that have economic utility; especially the stock of useful goods having economic value in existence at any one time <national wealth>

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 riches; abundant possessions; opulence. 2 the state of being rich. 3 (foll. by of) an abundance or profusion (a wealth of new material). 4 archaic welfare or prosperity. Phrases and idioms: wealth tax a tax on personal capital. Etymology: ME welthe, f. WELL(1) or WEAL(2) + -TH(2), after health

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Wealth Wealth, n. [OE. welthe, from wele; cf. D. weelde luxury. See Weal prosperity.] 1. Weal; welfare; prosperity; good. [Obs.] ``Let no man seek his own, but every man another's wealth.'' --1 Cor. x. 24. 2. Large possessions; a comparative abundance of things which are objects of human desire; esp., abundance of worldly estate; affluence; opulence; riches. I have little wealth to lose. --Shak. Each day new wealth, without their care, provides. --Dryden. Wealth comprises all articles of value and nothing else. --F. A. Walker. Active wealth. See under Active. Syn: Riches; affluence; opulence; abundance.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Wealth Wealth, n. (Econ.) (a) In the private sense, all pooperty which has a money value. (b) In the public sense, all objects, esp. material objects, which have economic utility. (c) Specif. called personal wealth. Those energies, faculties, and habits directly contributing to make people industrially efficient.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. Wealth is the possession of a large amount of money, property, or other valuable things. You can also refer to a particular person's money or property as their wealth. Economic reform has brought relative wealth to peasant farmers... = affluence 2. If you say that someone or something has a wealth of good qualities or things, you are emphasizing that they have a very large number or amount of them. (FORMAL) ...such a wealth of creative expertise... = abundance N-SING: a N of n [emphasis]

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Affluence, opulence, abundance, fortune, independence, competence, riches, mammon, pelf, money, treasure, funds, cash, property.

Moby Thesaurus

Easy Street, abundance, affluence, ample sufficiency, ampleness, amplitude, assessed valuation, assets, assets and liabilities, avalanche, bed of roses, bonanza, bountifulness, bountiousness, bumper crop, capital, capital gains, circumstances, cleanup, clear profit, clover, comfort, copiousness, current assets, deferred assets, dividends, earnings, ease, easy circumstances, estate, extravagance, exuberance, felicity, fertility, filthy lucre, fixed assets, fleshpots, flood, flow, foison, fortune, frozen assets, full measure, fullness, funds, gain, gains, generosity, generousness, get, gettings, gleanings, goods, gracious life, gracious living, great abundance, great plenty, gross, gross profit, gush, happiness, hoard, holdings, income, intangible assets, intangibles, interest, killing, landslide, lap of luxury, lavishness, liberality, liberalness, life of ease, liquid assets, loaves and fishes, lots, lucre, luxuriance, luxury, makings, material assets, maximum, mean, means, more than enough, much, myriad, myriads, neat profit, net, net assets, net profit, net worth, numerousness, opulence, opulency, outpouring, overflow, paper profits, pelf, percentage, perk, perks, perquisite, pickings, plenitude, plenteousness, plentifulness, plenty, possessions, prevalence, proceeds, prodigality, productiveness, profit, profits, profuseness, profusion, property, prosperity, prosperousness, quantities, quick assets, rake-off, receipts, repleteness, repletion, resources, return, returns, rich harvest, rich vein, riches, richness, riot, riotousness, scads, security, shower, spate, stock, stock-in-trade, store, stream, substance, substantiality, substantialness, success, superabundance, take, take-in, tangible assets, tangibles, teemingness, the affluent life, the good life, thriving condition, upward mobility, velvet, weal, welfare, well-being, winnings, worth