different between wealth vs nabob

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)

1. (economics) Riches; a great amount of valuable assets or material possessions.
2. A great amount; an abundance or plenty.
3. (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.

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.

English

Etymology

In colloquial usage in English since 1612, from Urdu ????? (nav?b), from Persian [Term?], from Arabic ???????? (nuww?b), the honorific plural of ??????? (n??ib, “deputy”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?ne?b?b/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?ne?b?b/

Noun

nabob (plural nabobs)

1. (historical) An Indian ruler within the Mogul empire.

   Synonym: nawab

2. (by extension) Someone of great wealth or importance.

   Synonyms: tycoon, magnate
3. (by extension) A person with a grandiose style or manner.

Derived terms

• Nob Hill (“neighborhood in San Francisco”)

Related terms

• nawab

Translations

References

• Nabobs: A Study of the Social Life of the English in the Eighteenth-Century, Percival Spear, Oxford University Press, London 1938; New Edition OUP, USA: 1998.
• Durham's Place-Names of the San Francisco Bay Area, David L. Durham, Quill Driver Books, California: 2000.

Further reading

• Nabob on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Nabob in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)