rich

Etymology
From, from , from , from , from , an early borrowing from , from. Reinforced by 🇨🇬, from the same source.

Adjective

 * 1) Wealthy: having a lot of money and possessions.
 * 2) Having an intense fatty or sugary flavour.
 * 3) * 1709-1710,, Reflections on Learning
 * High sauces and rich spices are fetch'd from the Indies.
 * 1) Remunerative.
 * 2) Plentiful, abounding, abundant, fulfilling.
 * 3) Yielding large returns; productive or fertile; fruitful.
 * 4) Composed of valuable or costly materials or ingredients; procured at great outlay; highly valued; precious; sumptuous; costly.
 * 5) Not faint or delicate; vivid.
 * 6)  Very amusing.
 * 7)  Ridiculous, absurd, outrageous, preposterous, especially in a galling, hypocritical, or brazen way.
 * 8) * 1858, William Brown (of Montreal), The Commercial Crisis: Its Cause and Cure (page 28)
 * Now, if money be a marketable commodity like flour, as the Witness states, is it not rather a rich idea that of selling the use of a barrel of flour instead of the barrel of flour itself?
 * 1)  Elaborate, having complex formatting, multimedia, or depth of interaction.
 * 2) Of a solute-solvent solution: not weak (not diluted); of strong concentration.
 * 3) Of a fuel-air mixture: having more fuel (thus less air) than is necessary to burn all of the fuel; less air- or oxygen- rich than necessary for a stoichiometric reaction.
 * 4)  Trading at a price level which is high relative to historical trends, a similar asset, or (for derivatives) a theoretical value.
 * 1) Composed of valuable or costly materials or ingredients; procured at great outlay; highly valued; precious; sumptuous; costly.
 * 2) Not faint or delicate; vivid.
 * 3)  Very amusing.
 * 4)  Ridiculous, absurd, outrageous, preposterous, especially in a galling, hypocritical, or brazen way.
 * 5) * 1858, William Brown (of Montreal), The Commercial Crisis: Its Cause and Cure (page 28)
 * Now, if money be a marketable commodity like flour, as the Witness states, is it not rather a rich idea that of selling the use of a barrel of flour instead of the barrel of flour itself?
 * 1)  Elaborate, having complex formatting, multimedia, or depth of interaction.
 * 2) Of a solute-solvent solution: not weak (not diluted); of strong concentration.
 * 3) Of a fuel-air mixture: having more fuel (thus less air) than is necessary to burn all of the fuel; less air- or oxygen- rich than necessary for a stoichiometric reaction.
 * 4)  Trading at a price level which is high relative to historical trends, a similar asset, or (for derivatives) a theoretical value.
 * 1) * 1858, William Brown (of Montreal), The Commercial Crisis: Its Cause and Cure (page 28)
 * Now, if money be a marketable commodity like flour, as the Witness states, is it not rather a rich idea that of selling the use of a barrel of flour instead of the barrel of flour itself?
 * 1)  Elaborate, having complex formatting, multimedia, or depth of interaction.
 * 2) Of a solute-solvent solution: not weak (not diluted); of strong concentration.
 * 3) Of a fuel-air mixture: having more fuel (thus less air) than is necessary to burn all of the fuel; less air- or oxygen- rich than necessary for a stoichiometric reaction.
 * 4)  Trading at a price level which is high relative to historical trends, a similar asset, or (for derivatives) a theoretical value.
 * 1) Of a solute-solvent solution: not weak (not diluted); of strong concentration.
 * 2) Of a fuel-air mixture: having more fuel (thus less air) than is necessary to burn all of the fuel; less air- or oxygen- rich than necessary for a stoichiometric reaction.
 * 3)  Trading at a price level which is high relative to historical trends, a similar asset, or (for derivatives) a theoretical value.
 * 1) Of a fuel-air mixture: having more fuel (thus less air) than is necessary to burn all of the fuel; less air- or oxygen- rich than necessary for a stoichiometric reaction.
 * 2)  Trading at a price level which is high relative to historical trends, a similar asset, or (for derivatives) a theoretical value.
 * 1)  Trading at a price level which is high relative to historical trends, a similar asset, or (for derivatives) a theoretical value.

Synonyms

 * See Thesaurus:wealthy

Antonyms

 * See Thesaurus:impoverished

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Ainu: イコロアン
 * Albanian:
 * Aleut: tukux̂
 * Arabic: غَنِيّ
 * Egyptian Arabic: غني
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: ,
 * Bashkir: бай
 * Basque: aberats
 * Belarusian:
 * Bengali:
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese: ,
 * Buryat: баян
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Eastern Min: 富
 * Mandarin:, , ,
 * Crimean Tatar: zengin, bay
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Evenki: баян
 * Faroese:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Friulian: ric, siôr
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: მდიდარი
 * German:
 * Gothic: 𐌲𐌰𐌱𐌹𐌲𐍃
 * Greek: ,
 * Ancient: πλούσιος
 * Hawaiian: waiwai
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:, , , , धनवान
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Ingrian: rikas, karvain, rahakas, rahalliin, paksu
 * Interlingua:
 * Irish: saibhir
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, , ,
 * Javanese:
 * Kazakh: бай
 * Khmer: ,
 * Korean: ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: دۆڵەمەند, خاوەن پارە
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao: ມັ່ງ, ລວຍ
 * Latin:, , locuplēs
 * Latvian: bagāts, turīgs, mantīgs
 * Lithuanian:
 * Louisiana Creole French: rish
 * Low German:
 * German Low German:
 * Luxembourgish:
 * Macedonian: богат
 * Malay:
 * Maltese: għani
 * Manchu: ᠪᠠᠶᠠᠨ
 * Maori: whairawa
 * Minangkabau:
 * Mizo: hausa
 * Mongolian: ,
 * Nanai: баян
 * Navajo: atʼį́
 * Norman: riche
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: rik
 * Occitan:
 * Old Czech: bohatý
 * Old Javanese: sugih
 * Old Occitan: ric
 * Oromo: dureessa
 * Ossetian:
 * Digor: гъӕздуг
 * Iron: хъӕзны́г, хъӕзды́г
 * Pashto:, بډا,
 * Persian:, , رایومند
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romani: barvalo
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Sanskrit:, , , , ,
 * Scots: rik
 * Scottish Gaelic: beairteach
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: богат, имућан
 * Roman:, imućan
 * Shor: пай
 * Sicilian:
 * Sidamo: dureessa
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: bogaty
 * Upper Sorbian: bohaty
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: mayaman
 * Tajik:, ,
 * Tamil: பணக்கார
 * Tatar: бай
 * Telugu: సంపన్న,
 * Thai:, มีเงิน
 * Tibetan: ཕྱུག་པོ
 * Tocharian B: śāte
 * Turkish:, ,
 * Turkmen:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu: امیر, دھنی
 * Uyghur:
 * Uzbek:
 * Venetian: rico
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük:
 * Welsh:, goludog, mwynfawr,
 * West Frisian: ryk
 * Yiddish: רײַך
 * Yucatec Maya: ayik'al


 * Bulgarian:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: λιπαρός
 * Irish: borrúil, méith
 * Korean:
 * Latin: ,
 * Maori: haumako

Noun

 * 1) The rich people of a society or the world collectively, the rich class of a society.
 * 2) * 1926 Jan.,, "", , Vol. 46, No. 3, p. 28:
 * Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand. They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are...
 * 1) * 1936 Aug.,, "", :
 * ...if he lived he would never write about her, he knew that now. Nor about any of them. The rich were dull and they drank too much, or they played too much backgammon. They were dull and they were repetitious. He remembered poor and his romantic awe of them and how he had started a story once that began, "The rich are different from you and me." And how some one had said to Scott, Yes, they have more money. But that was not humorous to Scott. He thought they were a special glamourous race and when he found they weren't it wrecked him just as much as any other thing that wrecked him.
 * 1) * 1936 Aug. 15,, letter to Elizabeth Lemmon:
 * ... is headed for Wyoming,&mdash;& wasn't that reference to, in otherwise, contemptable, & more so because he said "I am getting to know the rich" &  said&mdash;we were at lunch together&mdash;"the only difference between the rich & other people is that the rich have more money."
 * 1) * 2010 Jan. 27,, "Populism: Just Like Racism!", True/Slant:
 * This is the same Randian bullshit that we've been hearing from people like for ages and its entire premise is really revolting and insulting&mdash;this idea that the way society works is that the productive "rich" feed the needy "poor," and that any attempt by the latter to punish the former for "excesses" might inspire  his way out of town and leave the helpless poor on their own to starve. That's basically 's entire argument here. Yes, the rich and powerful do rig the game in their own favor, and yes, they are guilty of "excesses"&mdash;but fucking deal with it, if you want to eat.

Usage notes
The adjective rich forms two separate plural nouns: the rich are the people characterized by being rich, while are the things that make or might make someone rich. The existence of this separate sense of generally precludes informal countable use of rich similar to that seen in  and.

Verb

 * 1)  To enrich.
 * 2)  To become rich.
 * 1)  To become rich.
 * 1)  To become rich.

Etymology
From, from.

Adjective

 * , wealthy