an abundance of material possessions and resources

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"

the quality of profuse abundance; " she has a wealth of talent"

property that has economic utility: a monetary value or an exchange value

In the private sense, all pooperty which has a money value.

In the public sense, all objects, esp. material objects, which have economic utility.

Those energies, faculties, and habits directly contributing to make people industrially efficient.

Weal; welfare; prosperity; good.

Large possessions; a comparative abundance of things which are objects of human desire; esp., abundance of worldly estate; affluence; opulence; riches.

Riches; affluence; great abundance.

Large possessions of any kind: riches.

Riches; affluence; profusion.

A great amount of property; riches; exuberance; profusion.

Prosperity; riches; large possessions of money, goods, or land; that abundance of worldly estate which exceeds that of the greater part of the community; affluence; that which possesses exchangeable value.

State or quality of being well; riches; large possessions; an extraordinary abundance of this world's goods; affluence.

See under weal.

I never asked them what they had done with our father's great wealth lest they might feel ashamed. – Bagh O Bahar, Or Tales of the Four Darweshes by Mir Amman of Dihli

There was one man whose progress in wealth I watched with much interest and pleasure. – Domestic Manners of the Americans by Fanny Trollope

I feel sure that if Sir Charles could have spoken with me before his death he would have warned me against bringing this, the last of the old race, and the heir to great wealth to that deadly place. – The Hound of the Baskervilles by A. Conan Doyle

They simply begged it for some kind of wealth – Twenty-two Goblins by Unknown

The pursuit or possession of wealth as an end in itself, or a means to mere selfish ends, will drive Love out of the soul. – The Five Great Philosophies of Life by William de Witt Hyde

Such was her entrance into wealth and love and alas! – The Millionaire Baby by Anna Katharine Green

He had raised himself from bitter poverty to wealth by his own exertions. – Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. II. by Gustav Freytag

A single word, the mere writing of a man's name, has swept all my wealth away. – Wives and Widows; or The Broken Life by Ann S. Stephens

They do well, as other people can do that for them; but there are many other means of getting strength and wealth – Monsieur Violet by Frederick Marryat

Mere wealth had not added to the sum of human happiness. – The Coming of the Friars by Augustus Jessopp

He was a plastherer be thrade whin wages was high, an' O'Grady was rowlin' in wealth – Mr. Dooley: In the Hearts of His Countrymen by Finley Peter Dunne

By virtue of such a system wealth was as inevitable as human necessity; and the thought of human necessity did not greatly bother me. – The Complete PG Edition of The Works of Winston Churchill by Winston Churchill

There's many a small business like mine which, when built up, means a great big business and much wealth – The Rebel of the School by Mrs. L. T. Meade

Beyond the hills was still all the wealth of the Columbia, of the Pacific Northwest also. – The Young Alaskans on the Missouri by Emerson Hough

And it is worth much to the man of wealth that there may be, near his own door, an institution to which he may send his children, and under the influence of which they may be carried forward. – Thoughts on Educational Topics and Institutions by George S. Boutwell

I beg of you don't jump to the conclusion that I roll in wealth – The Madness of May by Meredith Nicholson

I have lost my father and all his wealth said the lady, for when he hears of this matter he will make of me an example. – French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France by Marie de France

At length, wealth came; my footsteps left the wild,- Again we met:- to woman grown the child: How did we meet? – The Poetical Works of Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, Bart. M.P. by Edward Bulwer Lytton

Truth is a good, like health, wealth etc. – Pragmatism A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking by William James

His father had acquired wealth but not in this way. – Masterman and Son by W. J. Dawson