Roget's Thesaurus: Entry 803 (Wealth)

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#803. Wealth.-- N. wealth, riches, fortune, handsome fortune, opulence, affluence; good circumstances, easy circumstances; independence; competence &c. (sufficiency) 639; solvency.

provision, livelihood, maintenance; alimony, dowry; means, resources, substance; property &c. 780; command of money.

income &c. 810; capital, money; round sum &c. (treasure) 800; mint of money, mine of wealth, El Dorado[Sp], bonanza, Pacatolus, Golconda, Potosi.

long purse, full purse, well lined purse, heavy purse, deep pockets; purse of Fortunatus[Lat]; embarras de richesses[Fr].

pelf, Mammon, lucre, filthy lucre; loaves and fishes|!.

rich man, moneyed man, warm man; man of substance; capitalist, millionaire, tippybob*[obs], Nabob, Croesus, idas, Plutus, Dives, Timon of Athens[obs]; Timocracy, Plutocracy; Danae.

V. be rich &c. adj.; roll in wealth, roll in riches, wallow in wealth, wallow in riches.

afford, well afford; command money, command a sum; make both ends meet, hold one's head above water.

become rich &c. adj.; strike it rich; come into a sum of money, receive a windfall, receive an inheritance, hit the jackpot, win the lottery; fill one's pocket &c. (treasury) 802; feather one's nest, make a fortune; make money &c. (acquire) 775.

[transitive] enrich, imburse[obs].

worship the golden calf, worship Mammon.

Adj. wealthy, rich, affluent, opulent, moneyed, monied, worth much; well to do, well off; warm; comfortable, well, well provided for.

made of money; rich as Croesus, filthy rich, rich as a Jew|!; rolling in riches, rolling in wealth.

flush, flush of cash, flush of money, flush of tin*; in funds, in cash, in full feather; solvent, pecunious[obs], out of debt, in the black, all straight.

Phr. one's ship coming in.

amour fait beaucoup mais argent fait tout [French: love does much but money does everything]; aurea rumpunt tecta quietem [Lat][Seneca]; magna servitus ist magna fortuna[Latin]; "mammon, the least erected spirit that fell from Heaven" [Paradise Lost]; opum furiata cupido [Lat][Ovid]; vera prosperita e non aver necessita [It]; wie gewonnen so zerronnen [German].