wealthywealth‧y /ˈwelθi/ ●●○ adjective (comparative wealthier, superlative wealthiest) 
He left as a poor, working class boy and returned as a wealthy man. the wealthy nations of the world► see thesaurus at rich2the wealthy [plural] people who have a lot of money, possessions etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Joan comes from a wealthy family
- She comes from a wealthy family, who own houses in London and Paris.
- The new taxes were aimed at the largest and wealthiest corporations.
- You would never have guessed from meeting him how immensely wealthy he was.
- A young woman does not mate faithfully with a wealthy tycoon.
- Born to a wealthy cloth merchant, Francis lived a lavish and irresponsible life.
- He is also wealthy enough to buy survival.
- He probably, she thought, came from a wealthy family.
- It is funded by taxpayers of the wealthier countries.
- The Coach House originally provided stabling for a wealthy rector who lived next door.
- These are nothing but elitist attempts at separating classes and colors and keeping the poor where the wealthy have put them.
THESAURUS
having a lot of money – used about people and places: · She married a rich Greek shipowner.· one of the world’s richest nations
rich – used about people and places, especially when they have been rich for a long time: · wealthy landowners· Orange County is a very wealthy area.· a wealthy Arab businessman
formal rich – used about societies, groups of people, or areas where people live, where people have nice houses and a lot of expensive possessions: · today’s affluent society· affluent young professionals· an affluent suburb of Boston
formal rich – used about places and groups of people, especially when their money is related to success in business: · Sales have grown fastest in the more prosperous areas of the south.· prosperous merchants and bankers
fairly rich compared to other people, so that you can live very comfortably: · Her parents are pretty well-off.· children from well-off families
written rich – used especially in the past about families and people who had a fairly high position in society: · Only well-to-do families could afford to send their children to university.· The Westons were now well-to-do and there was no necessity for work.
having special advantages because your family have a lot of money and a high position in society: · He comes from a privileged background.· The sport was only played by a privileged few.
[not before noun] having enough money to have a nice life without having to worry about money: · I wouldn’t say that we were rich – just comfortably off.
informal to be extremely rich: · They’ve got two houses and a boat – they must be rolling in it.· Her books were so successful that she’s loaded now.
Longman Language Activatorhaving a lot of money or possessions · Her new boyfriend is very good-looking and very rich.· You have to be rich to afford anything in this shop.· The rich countries of the world have promised more aid for developing countries.· Every year "Fortune" magazine publishes a list of the 100 richest people in America.
rich, especially through owning land, property, or valuable possessions over a long period of time: · She comes from a wealthy family, who own houses in London and Paris.· The new taxes were aimed at the largest and wealthiest corporations.· You would never have guessed from meeting him how immensely wealthy he was.
having more money than most people, so that you have a comfortable and easy life: · They were sufficiently well off to buy their own apartment.relatively/reasonably well off: · a relatively well off familybetter off: · The government claim that people are better off now than they have ever been.
rich and respected because you have a fairly high position in society: well-to-do family/background: · He wants to find a husband from a well-to-do background for his daughter.· Surprisingly, police statistics show that many of these thefts were carried out by people from well-to-do families.well-to-do area/neighbourhood: · Educational facilities are best in the more well-to-do residential areas.
having a lot of money, especially as a result of your own hard work - use this when talking about people in a particular country or group in society: · As people become more affluent, so their standard and style of living improves.affluent suburb: · We drove through affluent suburbs with large houses and tree-lined streets.affluent society: · Consumer goods are a symbol of prestige in an affluent society.
having a lot of money and a high standard of living, especially as a result of being successful in business: · a prosperous American businessman· After the war, Germany became one of Europe's most prosperous countries.
to have enough money to live comfortably without worrying about money: · When the children were small we never had much money, but now we seem to be comfortably off.
having enough money to live comfortably without worrying about money - use this about people or their financial situation: · My wife and I are very lucky, really, we're comfortable, even though we're both retired.have a comfortable life: · They've had a much more comfortable life since she started her new job.in comfortable circumstances: · He had supposed Mrs Mack to have been in comfortable circumstances, so he was surprised when he saw her tiny apartment.
a rich person a person who is very rich, usually because they own land, property etc or because they have a family that has always been rich: · Taylor is a man of means. His family owns several apartment blocks in New York.· These were people of means who could afford to pay expensive legal fees.
a person who has a million pounds or dollars, or more: · The money to keep the hospital open was provided by a London millionaire.· I can't afford a new car just now. I'm no millionaire, you know.
a person who has many millions of pounds or dollars: · Louis Berg is a multi-millionaire who made his money in the newspaper business.
a rich and powerful person in a particular industry: · Foundations set up by magnates such as Carnegie and Rockefeller provided most of the funding for the arts in the US.steel/oil/shipping etc magnate: · She married a Texan oil magnate.· the property magnate who owns the Empire State Building
someone who makes a lot of money from a particular industry or business - use this about people who you think do not deserve to earn so much because they do not run their industry well, do not provide a good service etc: · They do not resent the city fat cats, but believe top businessmen deserve success.· Why should those fat cats get rich through our efforts?
informal use this when you are saying in a humorous way that someone has a lot of money: · Nowadays, if you're not a moneybags, some places don't want to have anything to do with you.
all the people who are rich in a particular country, society etc - use this especially when you are comparing them with people who are poor: · Under this government the rich seem to have got richer and the poor poorer.· Democracy gave the poor, as well as the rich, a part to play in governing the city.the rich and famous: · a tour around the Hollywood homes of the rich and famous
people who are rich, especially through owning land, property, or valuable possessions over a long period of time, who have a lot of power or influence in society: · Private health care should not be only for the wealthy.· The hotel stood by a lake, where the wealthy went to go fishing or pigeon shooting.
rich people and poor people - use this expression when you are comparing both groups: · The widening gap between the haves and the have nots is becoming very noticeable in New York.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY He left as a poor, working class boy and returned as a wealthy man.COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
He left as a poor, working class boy and returned as a wealthy man.· All the top jobs were taken by people from privileged backgrounds.
· The ship was owned by a wealthy businessman.
(=where a lot of people are poor/rich)· He lived in one of London’s poorest districts.
(=a wealthy person)· Large ranches are often owned by corporations or wealthy individuals.
· Most tourists come from the wealthy nations of the world.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB· He had left as a poor, working class boy and returned as an extremely wealthy man.· Mention the average client rather than an extremely wealthy one-unless you helped him or her get that way.· They went to Cartier's in the Landmark, the black and gold shopping mall for the extremely wealthy.· There are a lot of extremely wealthy people here.· It is well to remember that Susanna Jennens with her £300 per year was not extremely wealthy.· As a civilization, it was solidly based in extremely wealthy areas, alongside which Arabia then seemed very poor.
· Everybody I met would surely be either fabulously wealthy, extremely intelligent or both.· In short they are all now fabulously wealthy.
· After all, he was an eminently eligible man, attractive and immensely wealthy.· The order grew immensely wealthy and place names all over the country still remind us of lands that they once owned.· After all, he was an immensely wealthy man.· Like Hope, he was immensely wealthy, and was able to combine passive politics with active art patronage and writing.
· Today, the Department approved grant-maintained status for five schools in wealthy, middle-class and less wealthy areas in that borough.· But that would not make them less wealthy.· The city remained free until the early sixteenth century but was less wealthy.· The timing also is bad for many people who were already feeling less wealthy because of the downturn in the stock market.
· Altdorf Altdorf is the capital of the Empire and the most wealthy of the City States.· Even the most wealthy moguls and healthy corporations will take out loans or mortgages to finance homes and equipment.· Two-thirds was owned by the most wealthy 10%.· Thirdly, the competitive nature of capitalism means that only the largest and most wealthy companies will survive and prosper.· Between 1979 and 1985 the proportion of wealth, held by the most wealthy 1 percent fell by only 2 percent.
· In general, such luxury items occur only rarely in Lincoln and the owners may well have been relatively wealthy burghers.· He was over sixty and a relatively wealthy man, with a wife who was financially independent.
· Some Goblins become very wealthy by trading in this way and the tribe's King becomes exceedingly rich.· Mr Crump is very wealthy and his wife is susceptible.· I have a friend who is very wealthy.· Just occasionally, wooden chests were used as coffins, but only for very wealthy people.· For smokers and the very wealthy, the taxes would be higher.· He seized the assets of all those he held, doubtless exceeding his authority in cases of the very wealthy.· By the time he died, though, he had filed over a thousand patents and was a very wealthy man.
NOUN· For Nina Liebermann, solution was a chance acquaintance with a wealthy businessman.· But the wealthy businessmen who hitherto have been his best customers are counting their change these days.· He picked up a £142,000 payoff from wealthy businessman Braswell when Clinton granted him a pardon on his last day in office.· Terry Lierman, a wealthy businessman and lobbyist, had been considered the leading candidate among Democrats to challenge Morella next year.· It was the natural choice for the landed gentry and a symbol of aspiration for wealthy businessmen.· Arizonans have a habit of embracing wealthy businessmen with virtually no elective experience.
· This was considered fairer because the amount of advertising time would be small and expensive, which could favour the wealthiest clients.· The firm oversees $ 30 million for wealthy clients.· George attempted a nearly honest living as a part-time thespian, and also as a tutor to the children of wealthy clients.· This did not in fact happen, but the earlier suggestion of it kept some of the wealthier clients on tap.
· The trend towards slower population growth appeared more and more in wealthier countries and regions.· It is funded by taxpayers of the wealthier countries.· In many wealthy countries, waste is the environmental problem that people care about most.· From wealthy countries, as well as from international investors who are willing to lend the World Bank funds.· Filthy-rich individuals apart, the politics of greed makes no economic sense for the wealthy countries that pursue it.· By these measures, the economic gap between the wealthier countries and the poorer countries is usually diminished.· Do you think this conclusion also applies to wealthier countries?
· He probably, she thought, came from a wealthy family.· Worn, secondhand clothes in a wealthy family were symbolic of a powerful devaluation.· Frequently the tombs, chapels, hatchments, private pews, and so on, indicate a local wealthy family.· Jane was wealthy; she was working for a wealthy family.· Her parents were both cut off by their wealthy families, following a clandestine marriage in the early 1750s.· She was from a wealthy family and did not need to work.· At Mochlos, there were some rectangular tombs which belonged to wealthy families.· But Catholic, Protestant and other religious leaders expressed fear that tax reforms will favor wealthier families and big business.
· His grandfather, my great-grandfather, had been a wealthy farmer.· I was the daughter of a wealthy farmer and the granddaughter of the wealthiest woman in the county.· The fact that the Ryans were wealthy farmers made no difference.· After all, I began life as the only child of a wealthy farmer.· Ricardo despaired that Parliament was protecting wealthy farmers at the expense of the working poor.
· Competition for the custom of wealthy individuals is also growing.· That effectively excludes all but the wealthiest individuals.· Even quite wealthy individuals confess to conjuring up images of going cold and hungry.· Naturally, the public display of great works of art led to a demand for imitations for enjoyment by wealthy individuals.· Democrats and Republicans raised millions from wealthy individuals, corporations and unions.· It has helped to create a new generation of seriously wealthy individuals and the establishment of a tax system geared to entrepreneurs.· Large ranches are often owned by corporations or wealthy individuals who have the cash to survive a downturn.
· Meanwhile insurance experts say the Lloyds losses will affect everyone, not just wealthy investors.· Soros made his fortune by setting up pools of wealthy investors who bet huge sums on global markets.· Both companies are private client stockbrokers, which specialize in managing money for wealthy investors, trusts and charities.· The Clinton Treasury wants to collect more capital gains tax from wealthy investors by closing supposed loopholes.
· Grandfather: Nicholai Alexandrovich Romanov, merchant, and one of the wealthiest landowners in Petrograd.· His father was a wealthy landowner with holdings up and down the lower Delaware.· The concern of the wealthy landowner was to continue as long as possible the wealth and social status of the family.· The Tzeltal and Tojolabal in Chiapas were driven into the rocky highlands after their lush flatlands were taken over by wealthy landowners.· Currently, subsidies that were envisaged as a way of protecting farmers in poor areas are being commercially exploited by wealthy landowners.· A narrow élite among the wealthier landowners and bureaucrats was developing tastes and interests which broke the Orthodox mould.
· He subsequently became a national figure and a wealthy man before dying in poverty.· Unless it would be for wealthy men interested in acquiring as trophy wives lapsed radicals who look great in workout gear.· Smith died a wealthy man 7 June 1591.· Most of them are wealthy men whose wives raise their children.· A considerable amount of objectivity was necessary if a really wealthy man decided to sweep a Girl off her feet.· But the speaker is not a wealthy man and could dip into campaign coffers, causing more controversy.· A wealthy man, without flying experience, was flown from London to Paris by his pilot.
· Mr Sayer also hinted at moves to encourage other wealthier members of the association to increase their current contributions.
· The Church of St Havel with its Romanesque foundations was surrounded by the houses of wealthy merchants.· At twenty-eight he was a wealthy merchant and a member of Congress.· Morrice became a moderately wealthy merchant, spending generously on the education of young men for the dissenting ministry.· Under other circumstances, he might have become a wealthy merchant.· By 1816 she had married a wealthy merchant named Hedgeland, who was dead by 1820.· Takes its name from Thomas Gledstane, a wealthy merchant.
· He urged wealthy nations to plant tropical hardwoods in desert lands, thereby tripling the area under tropical timber within a century.· But since the War exhibitions have been held at Brussels, Montreal and Osaka by wealthy nations, celebrating their achievements.· Probably by encouraging the world's wealthy nations to build nuclear power stations so that other countries need not follow suit.
· It had been financed by blood money, blood money from the wealthy parents of Charles's dead wife.
· Just occasionally, wooden chests were used as coffins, but only for very wealthy people.· Yet they could not resolve the paradox that their revolutionary aims resulted in goods that only wealthy people could afford.· Surveys within different countries seem to confirm this; the wealthier people in those countries are actually happier than the poorer.· Gains or losses from such investments tend to affect how wealthy people feel and their willingness to spend.· He enjoyed the company of influential and wealthy people, including royalty.· There are a lot of extremely wealthy people here.· Many wealthy people will be prevented by their love of money from entering into the Kingdom.· These wealthy people also bought up precious shoreline land and donated it to the public.
· But even the wealthiest person in the land is poor without spiritual riches.
· Newcastle City now includes the very wealthy suburb of Gosforth.· The Berzinses' spacious house is in a wealthy suburb of Indianapolis.
· Charlotte: Charlotte is a wealthy woman in her early forties who views aromatherapy as nothing more than an upmarket beauty treatment.· Women were crazy about him the most beautiful, the wealthiest women who belonged to the great families.· A wealthy woman in her own right, her personal fortune was recently estimated at £37m.· I was the daughter of a wealthy farmer and the granddaughter of the wealthiest woman in the county.· There were wealthy women whose husbands occupied important official positions.· His savvy with wealthy women accounted for many of his accomplishment5 A charity bearing his name was established in Paris in 1833.· We get wealthy women in here, well-known, good people.· Upon her demise, this wealthy woman bequeathed her entire fortune to a prisoner by the name of Mons.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY
1having a lot of money, possessions etc SYN richvery/extremely/immensely/fabulously etc wealthy- Private health care should not be only for the wealthy.
- The hotel stood by a lake, where the wealthy went to go fishing or pigeon shooting.
He left as a poor, working class boy and returned as a wealthy man. the wealthy nations of the world► see thesaurus at rich2the wealthy [plural] people who have a lot of money, possessions etc