noun
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Somebody who is wealthy.
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A stream or river flowing into a larger river or into a lake; a tributary stream; a tributary.
adjective
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Abundant; copious; plenteous.
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(by extension) Abounding in goods or riches; having a moderate level of material wealth.
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They were affluent, but aspired to true wealth.
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Tributary.
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Flowing to; flowing abundantly.
Examples of affluent in a Sentence
As society becomes more affluent in cash terms, time becomes more precious.
The Ardeche is the only considerable affluent from the right.
London's club life also went through a renaissance too, catering for increasingly affluent young people.
They will be closely tied to existing BBC programs and will target affluent 40 to 55 year-olds.
Some of it still looked very primitve whilst other parts contained large houses and looked very affluent.
She quickly became the star of the show, which was meant to follow privileged teens in the affluent community.
Conrad's other line, The Lauren Conrad Collection, is made up of more expensive pieces to appeal to Conrad's affluent peers.
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills is yet another chapter in the seemingly unending Bravo sagas of women's lives in affluent neighborhoods.
Beverly Hills is an incredibly influential and affluent area, making this group of housewives quite interesting to watch.
It lies on the River Brain, an affluent of the Blackwater, also known as the Guith, a form connected with the name Witham.
Currently, consumers do not feel as affluent as they did in 2004, but neither are they trading down.
Henri Lloyd, a London-based company started in the 1960s, focuses only on high-end gear that designed to meet the needs of affluent hobbyists.
The New Jersey housewives join the ladies from Orange County, New York and Atlanta in giving viewers a glimpse "behind the gates" at the lives of affluent, suburban housewives and all of the drama their money can buy.
First is My Little Swans, which is a travel website that aims at providing sophisticated information and resources to affluent travelers who are in search of new adventures.
He also had little sleep, as much from partying with the temporarily affluent Mrs. Worthington as concern over Martha's cross country flight from the law.
Gold mines are worked at several places in the northern part of Manchuria, of which the principal are on the Muho river, an affluent of the Amur, and near the Russian frontier.
Built in a cleft among the hills which line the river Resava, an affluent of the Morava, this monastery is enclosed in a fortress, whose square towers, and curtain without loopholes or battlements, remain largely intact.
The Szamos, formed by the junction of the Great (Nagy) and Little (Kis) Szamos, whose principal affluent is the Bistritz; the Zsil or.
It is so named from a cave (Le Moustier), on the right bank of the Vezere, an affluent of the Dordogne, above Les Eyzies and Tayac, which has yielded typical palaeolithic implements.
Salt Creek, an affluent of the Platte river, skirts the city.
It is situated on a spur of the Carpathians, and on the banks of the Titsch, an affluent of the Oder.
The river Suck, an affluent of the Shannon, divides it into two parts, of which the eastern was in county Roscommon until 1898.
The town is situated in the valley of the Austreberthe, a small affluent of the Seine, here crossed at a height of i oo ft.
It rises in the mountainous district known as the Pyreneos; but its more ambitious western affluent, the Araguay, has its extreme southern headwaters on the slopes of the Serra Cayapo, and flows a distance of 1080 m.
To the west of the Casiquiare there is a much shorter and more facile connexion between the Orinoco and Amazon basins, called the isthmus of Pimichin, which is reached by ascending the Terni branch of the Atabapo affluent of the Orinoco.
Its principal affluent is the Madre de Dios, or Mayu-tata, which rises in the eastern Cordilleras about 35 m.
An important affluent of the Gave d'Oloron, the Saison or Gave de Mauleon, descends from the Pic d'Orhy.
The Manych, another large affluent on the left, marks the ancient line of water connexion between the Sea of Azov and the Caspian Sea.
Near the west end of that lake it receives its first important affluent, the Lutschine (left), and then runs across the swampy plain of the Bodoli, between Interlaken (left) and Unterseen (right), before again expanding in order to form the Lake of Thun.
Kastoria occupies part of a peninsula on the western shore of Lake Kastoria, which here receives from the north its affluent the Zhelova.
But what if the newly affluent in Asia do aspire to just as many car and plane trips?
The growth of the Canary Wharf complex has brought in an influx of people, from the fairly affluent to the very rich.
Traditionally Rumney has been considered more affluent than neighboring Llanrumney.
What beautiful and priceless potlatches the affluent society will see - whether it likes it or not!
These two affluent cities, which regularly used to send Conservative MPs to Westminster, again spurned the Tories at May's local elections.
These two affluent cities, which regularly used to send Conservative MPs to Westminster, again spurned the Tories at May 's local elections.
Problems arise because in our modern affluent society there is a surfeit of food.
More affluent parents may simply prefer to have all of their child's clothing custom made because current fashion trends don't always pander to their tastes, or they prefer their child to have flawlessly fitted garments.
More affluent members of society commissioned their clothing, and most designers made only a few designs.
Her parents were not happy, as she was expected to go on to an affluent career much like her father, and her staunch religious background also did not allow much room for such creative nonsense.
While it may seem like only celebrities and other affluent people have access to world-renowned stylists, obtaining professional advice is actually quite easy.
Chris Lubienski stated in the Time Magazine article "Home Sweet School" in that "It is taking some of the most affluent and articulate parents out of the system.
If a segment of your donor base represents an affluent population, you may find that holding an annual gala event is a great fundraising opportunity.
Be poor, look rich, and only the affluent will see through your harmless social-climbing schemes.
Students who are dressed in discount or tattered clothing are often teased and ridiculed by more affluent classmates.
The Mejerda and its affluent the Mellegue, rivers of Tunisia, have their rise in Algeria, in the mountainous country east of Constantine.
The chief affluent is the Nore, which it receives from the north-west a little above New Ross.
Although his actual poverty has been recently denied, he cannot have been affluent.
The principal affluent of the Beni, and one which exceeds it in volume, enters it 120 m.
The Jurua is the next great southern affluent of the Amazon west of the Purus, sharing with this the bottom of the immense inland Amazon depression, and having all the characteristics of the Purus as regards curvature, sluggishness and general features of the low, half-flooded forest country it traverses.