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wealth
English
Alternative forms
- wealthe, welth, welthe (all obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English welth, welthe, weolthe (“happiness, prosperity”), from Old English *welþ, weleþu, 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. Cognate with Dutch weelde (“wealth”), Low German weelde (“wealth”), Old High German welida, welitha (“wealth”). Related also to German Wohl (“welfare, well-being, weal”), Danish vel (“weal, welfare”), Swedish väl (“well-being, weal”). More at weal, well.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /w?l?/, [w?l??]
- Rhymes: -?l?
Noun
wealth (usually uncountable, plural wealths)
- (economics) Riches; a great amount of valuable assets or material possessions.
- A great amount; an abundance or plenty.
- (obsolete) Prosperity; well-being; happiness.
- c. 1596-97, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act V scene i[2]:
- I once did lend my body for his wealth, / Which, but for him that had your husband's ring, / Had quite miscarried: […]
- Let no man seek his own, but every man another's wealth.
- c. 1596-97, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act V scene i[2]:
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:wealth
Derived terms
Translations
References
- wealth at OneLook Dictionary Search
- wealth in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
- "wealth" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 331.
- wealth in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- wealth in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
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aurophobia
English
Etymology
auro- +? -phobia
Noun
aurophobia (uncountable)
- The fear of gold; by extension, the fear of wealth.
- 1898, Western Druggist, Volume 20, page 258:
- If this be true, it certainly shows the power of suggestion, idiosyncrasy or aurophobia to an extent scarcely equaled by Mr. Bryan himself, who was said to be sorely distressed a short time ago on account of finding gold in his well.
- 1961, Morris Goldstein, Lift Up Your Life: A Personal Philosophy for Our Times, Philosophical Library (1961), page 87:
- Slaves are we then to a superstition — aurophobia — for there is never enough; fear of insecurity will not be remedied by any amount, whether counted in hundreds of thousands or millions.
- 1972, Paul Einzig, A Textbook on Monetary Policy, Macmillan (1972), page 223:
- The other main reason for the aurophobia that prevails in many quarters is that the monetary use of gold implies fixed parities, […]
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:aurophobia.
- 1898, Western Druggist, Volume 20, page 258:
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