wealth (redirected from affluence)

wealth

1. a large amount of money and valuable material possessions

2. the state of being rich

3. Economics all goods and services with monetary, exchangeable, or productive value

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Wealth

See also Luxury, Treasure.

Weaving (See SEWING and WEAVING.)

Abu Dhabi

Persian Gulf sheikdom overflowing with petrodollars. [Mid-East Hist.: NCE, 9]

Big Daddy

wealthy Mississippi landowner of humble origins. [Am. Lit.: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof]

black and gold

symbol of financial prosperity. [Heraldry: Jobes, 222]

buttercup

traditional symbol of wealth. [Plant Symbolism: Flora Symbolica, 167]

Cave of Mammon

abode of god of riches. [Br. Lit.: Faerie Queene]

Corinth

ancient Greek city; one of wealthiest and most powerful. [Gk. Hist. and Myth.: Zimmerman, 69]

Croesus

Lydian king; name became synonymous with riches. [Gk. Myth.: Kravitz, 69]

Dives

rich man who ignored poor man’s plight; sent to Hell. [N.T.: Luke 16:19–31]

Erichthonius

world’s richest man in classical times. [Gk. Myth.: Kravitz, 91]

Fortunatus’ purse

luckless man receives gift of inexhaustible purse. [Ital. Fairy Tale: LLEI, I: 286]

Fuggers

16th-century German financiers. [Ger. Hist.: NCE, 1023–1024]

Hughes, Howard

(1905–1976) eccentric millionaire; lived as recluse. [Am. Hist.: NCE, 1284]

Midas

Phrygian king; whatever he touched became gold. [Gk. and Rom. Myth.: Wheeler, 24]

Plutus

god of wealth: blind (indiscriminate); lame (slow to accumulate); and winged (quick to disappear). [Gk. Lit.: Plutus]

Rockefeller, John D(avison)

(1839–1937) oil magnate; name has become synonymous with “rich.” [Am. Hist.: Jameson, 431]

Solomon

fabulous riches garnered from gifts and tolls. [O.T.: I Kings 10:14–25]

Timon

rich Athenian; ruined by his prodigal generosity to friends. [Br. Lit.: Timon of Athens]

turquoise

seeing turquoise after a new moon brings wealth. [Gem Symbolism: Kunz, 345]

Warbucks, Daddy

adventurous soldier of fortune and richest man in world. [Comics: “Little Orphan Annie” in Horn, 459]

wheat stalk

traditional symbol of wealth. [Flower Symbolism: Flora Symbolica, 178]