Wealth is a large amount of money and valuable things owned. Great wealth, wealth tax, a wealth of experience.
It is a stock where income is a flow, and it is distributed far more unequally than income in every country measured. A wealth of something means an abundance of it. Note that the Old English word meant wellbeing and prosperity generally — commonwealth keeps that older sense.
1nounwealthA large amount of money and valuable things owned.
“He made his wealth from oil and spent much of it on art.”
2nounabundanceAn abundance of something.
“The museum has a wealth of information about local history.”
wealth is possessions.
Also accepted in games: riches, fortune
Old English welth means wellbeing or prosperity, from wela, welfare. Weal and commonwealth come from the same wellbeing.
Proto-West Germanic
*waliþu — wealth
Old English
*welþ
Middle English
welth
English, today
wealth
Built from
Middle English welth, welthe (“happiness, prosperity”), from Old English welþ, welþu, 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 West Frisian wielde (“wealth”), 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.
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