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Webster 1913 Edition


Opulence

Op′u-lence

,
Noun.
[L.
opulentia
: cf. F.
opulence
. See
Opulent
.]
Wealth; riches; affluence.
Swift

Webster 1828 Edition


Opulence

OP'ULENCE

,
Noun.
[L. opulentia, from opes, wealth.] Wealth; riches; affluence. [Opulency is little used.]

Definition 2024


opulence

opulence

English

Noun

opulence (countable and uncountable, plural opulences)

  1. wealth
  2. abundance, bounty, profusion

Quotations

  • 1721, John Gay, A Panegyrical Epistle to Mr. Thomas Snow, Goldſmith, near Temple-Bar; Occaſion’d by his Buying and Selling the Third South-Sea Subſcriptions, taken in by the Directors at a Thouſand per Cent, published in 1733 in Miscellanies, volume 3, page 239:
    There in full Opulence a Banker dwelt,
    Who all the Joys and Pangs of Riches felt;
    His Side-board glitter’d with imagin’d Plate;
    And his proud Fancy held a vaſt Eſtate.
  • C. J. Fox:
    The most meritorious persons have always … been removed from opulence.

Synonyms

  • See also Wikisaurus:wealth

Translations


French

Noun

opulence f (plural opulences)

  1. opulence