noun
definition
Riches; valuable material possessions.
definition
A great amount; an abundance or plenty.
example
She brings a wealth of knowledge to the project.
definition
Prosperity; well-being; happiness.
Examples of wealth in a Sentence
The wealth he had never concealed.
How much of his wealth actually belonged to Katie?
Buying that pan increases your wealth by $20.
And yet their wealth hasn't changed.
That can best be understood by studying wealth and poverty in history.
The wealth created by technological advance will grow as fast as technology grows.
Only their relative wealth is different.
And as population rises, education rises, health rises, and wealth rises, more and more people will be working on these problems.
The influx of winter visitors adds to the wealth of the city.
Its silver and gold mines were the source of great wealth both to the Carthaginians and to the Romans.
The extent of his wealth was still a mystery.
Pierre had first experienced this strange and fascinating feeling at the Sloboda Palace, when he had suddenly felt that wealth, power, and life--all that men so painstakingly acquire and guard--if it has any worth has so only by reason of the joy with which it can all be renounced.
This is almost the definition of wealth creation.
My guess of the thousandfold increase in wealth is just that, a guess.
This will bring vast amounts of new wealth onto the planet.
All it takes is so much wealth that it is self-sustaining—that the productivity of that wealth can support everyone.
The mineral wealth of the duchy is not inconsiderable.
And we got them all, more or less, by trade and the wealth generated by our work doing some function for which we are trained.
And if history is an accurate guide, that wealth will be partially redistributed to the poor—even the poorest of the poor, the bottom billion.
Younger people have less wealth than older ones, on average.
Wealth and society encourage civilization, which is advantageous to everyone.
Whether or not their life together was a success had little to do with wealth or lack of it.
However large the wealth he brought back from India, all was swallowed up in defraying the expenses of his trial.
The arrival of these first-fruits of the mineral wealth of the southern continent gained for the estuary of the Parana the name which it has since borne, that of Rio de la Plata, the silver river.
In their hurry to obtain wealth, this crowd of office-mongers from the provinces lent themselves to all kinds of bribery and corruption.
The mineral wealth of the state is limited.
He increased the dignity of the crown by introducing a stricter court etiquette, and its wealth by recovering those of the royal domains which the magnates had appropriated during the troubles of the last reign.
Against all abuses, both civil and ecclesiastical, he steadily set his face, even against the increasing wealth and worldliness of the clergy.
After a prolonged struggle of thirty years, they wrested the whole island from tile Saracens; and Reger, dying in 1101, bequeathed to his son Roger a kingdom in Calabria and Sicily second to none in Europe for wealth and magnificence.
We see that men of birth and wealth often allowed themselves a strange licence in dealing with their low-born fellow-citizens.
Well, wealth would expand dramatically, and the people who had those jobs before could get new and better jobs, such as managing the army of manure-toting robots.
They need the Internet, mobile phones, computers, and the other accoutrements of the modern age for the wealth they bring.
Technology brings about economic wealth through improved production, facilitation of trade, and promoting the division of labor.
Here, as elsewhere, he was surrounded by an atmosphere of subservience to his wealth, and being in the habit of lording it over these people, he treated them with absent-minded contempt.
By his age he should have belonged to the younger men, but by his wealth and connections he belonged to the groups of old and honored guests, and so he went from one group to another.
In the first place the marriage was not a brilliant one as regards birth, wealth, or rank.
No matter what Katie or Alex said or thought, exploring the extent of his wealth was uncomfortable for her.
Successful feuds with the bishops of Strassburg and Basel further augmented his wealth and his reputation; rights over various tracts of land were purchased from abbots and others; and he was also the possessor of large estates in the regions now known as Switzerland and Alsace.
The country round is fertile and well cultivated, and the place must have been one of considerable wealth before the T'aip'ing rebellion, as the ruins of many fine temples attest.
The coal beds are of enormous extent, and constitute an important element in the wealth of the state.
The Northern Temperate region was denuded of its floral wealth, of which it only retains a comparatively scanty wreck.
Tacitus, besides being a man of immense wealth (which he bequeathed to the state), Dill, Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius, Bk.
Flora.-The pastoral wealth of Uruguay, as of the neighbouring Argentine Republic, is due to the fertilizing constitutents of "pampa mud," geologically associated with gigantic antediluvian animals, whose fossil remains are abundant.
Many of them equalled the patricians in wealth and antiquity of descent, and as soon as inter-marriage was allowed they became in all things their social equals.
At this time the state had been brought to the brink of ruin by the growth of avarice and luxury; there was a glaring inequality in the distribution of land and wealth, and the number of full citizens had sunk to 700, of whom about roc practically monopolized the land.
Dorset died in 1501, but Wolsey found other patrons in his pursuit of wealth and fame.
Her efforts to restore it in1526-1528were ineffectual; her prestige had depended upon her reputation for wealth derived from the fact that she had acted in recent years as the paymaster of Europe.
On the whole he belongs to the "Mercantile" school, though he does not regard money as the only form of wealth.
Specially noteworthy in the Lezioni are the sections on human wants as the foundation of economical theory, on labour as the source of wealth, on personal services as economic factors, and on the united working of the great industrial functions.
There are indeed many Mahratta chiefs still resident in the country, members of the aristocracy which formerly enjoyed much wealth and power.