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Definition: Affluence |
AffluenceNoun1. Abundant wealth. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "affluence" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Etymology: Affluence \Af"flu*ence\, noun. [French expression affluence, from Latin expression affluentia, from affluens, present participle of affluere to flow to; ad fluere to flow. See Flux.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Dream Interpretation | To dream that you are in affluence, foretells that you will make fortunate ventures, and will be pleasantly associated with people of wealth. To young women, a vision of weird and fairy affluence is ominous of illusive and evanescent pleasure. They should study more closely their duty to friends and parents. After dreams of this nature they are warned to cultivate a love for home life. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: AffluenceSynonym: richness (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Prosperity | Noun: prosperity, welfare, well-being; affluence; (wealth); success; thrift, roaring trade; good fortune, smiles of fortune; blessings, godsend. |
Sufficiency | Fill; fullness; (completeness); plenitude, plenty; abundance; copiousness; Adjective:; amplitude, galore, lots, profusion; full measure; " good measure pressed down and running, over." luxuriance; (fertility); affluence; (wealth); fat of the land; "a land flowing with milk and honey"; cornucopia; horn of plenty, horn of Amalthaea; mine; (stock). |
Wealth | Noun: wealth, riches, fortune, handsome fortune, opulence, affluence; good circumstances, easy circumstances; independence; competence; (sufficiency); solvency. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Affluence |
| English words defined with "affluence": Affluency. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "affluence": Blind, Bridge ♦ Lantern, Lips ♦ zone of affluence. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "affluence": Affluency, Afflux. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Affluence" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. French (pouring out, rush). |
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Clever | He is now fast rising from affluence to poverty. (references; author: Mark Twain) | |
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Publius Cornelius Tacitus | Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable. |
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Business | A cellular phone is also a contemporary symbol of success and affluence. (references) | |
By 1997, this rose to 53.1% largely due to the growing affluence of Singaporeans. (references) | ||
After expanding rapidly in the late 90s, the number of readers making use of public and private library systems declined due to Taiwan's growing affluence. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Kazakhstan | Registration in most of the country generally was routine, but it was difficult to register in Almaty and Astana due to their relative affluence and local officials' fears of overcrowding. (references) |
Central African Republic | Unlike in previous years, there were no reports that Muslims, particularly Mbororo, were singled out for harassment by authorities, including extortion by police, due to popular resentment of their presumed affluence. (references) | |
Economic History | Korea | Note: One feature of the growing affluence of Koreans is the trend to own pets. (references) |
Minorities | Kenya | Many persons of African descent resent those of Asian descent for their affluence, and for their reluctance to assimilate African culture and to employ blacks, particularly in management positions. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Affluence" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.02% of the time. "Affluence" is used about 205 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.02% | 203 | 21,393 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.98% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 205 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "affluence": rise to affluence. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
affluence | 17 |
affluence famine morality | 3 |
affluence creating | 3 |
affluence famine morality peter singer | 2 |
affluence strategy | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "affluence"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | kamje (competence, competency, wealth), bollëk (abundance, ampleness, amplitude, exuberance, exuberancy, flowing, galore, opulence, plenitude, plenty, plethora, profusion, redundance, redundancy, riches, richness, store, superfluity, wealth), begati (abundance, luxuriance, weal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | فيض (abundance, emanation, flood, flooding, flow, overflow, plenty, spate, superfluity), وفرة (abundance, amplitude, exuberance, generosity, glut, liberality, opulence, opulent, plenty, profusion, pullulation, redundance, redundancy, richness, superfluity, wealth), غنى (chant, croon, enrich, make money, opulence, perform, render, riches, richness, sang, sing, sung, warble, wealth), ترف (luxe, luxury, opulence, richness), تدفق (afflux, bubble, discharge, drift, flow, flowing, fluency, flux, gush, inflow, influx, inrush, issue, jet, onrush, outbreak, outflow, outpouring, pour, roll, shoot, shoot up, slop, spirt, spout, spurt, stream, surge, throng), بحبوحة. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | охолство (ease, flesh-pots, prosperity), наплив (inflow, inflowing, influx), богатство (abundance, fortune, mammon, means, moneybags, opulence, pelf, pregnancy, purse, riches, richness, shekels, substance), благоденствие (flushness, prosperity, speed, weal, welfare), приток (affluent, afflux, confluent, feeder, indraft, indraught, influent, influx, subsidiary stream, supply, tributary), изобилие (abundance, amplitude, exuberance, fertility, flush, flushness, galore, lashings, liberality, luxuriance, opulence, plenitude, prodigality, productiveness, productivity, profusion, quantities, quantity, raft, redundance, redundancy, richness, spate, store, superfluity, teeming). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 丰富 (Abundant, Copious, Enrich, Enriched, Enriching, Opulent, Plentiful). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | nadbytek (abundance, glut, opulence, overplus, plenty, profusion, redundance, redundancy, store, superabundance, superfluity, surplus), hojnost (abundance, ampleness, exuberance, exuberancy, galore, lashings, legion, opulence, plenitude, plenty, profusion, redundance, redundancy, riches, superfluity), blahobyt (prosperity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | rigdom (abundance, wealth). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | rýkdom (abundance, wealth). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | فراوانی (Abundance, Amplitude, Lavish, Plenty, Profusion, Redundancy, Superabundance), وفور (Abundance, Bounty, Lavish, Opulence, Plurality, Profusion, Superabundance, Wealth). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | yltäkylläisyys (abundance, luxuriance), vauraus (prosperity, wealth). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | richesse. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Frisian | rykdom (abundance, wealth), rikens (abundance, wealth). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | wohlstand (fortune, prosperity, wealth, well-being), Reichtum (abundance, exuberance, fortune, luxuriancy, mammon, opulence, ornateness, plenty, prosperity, resource, richness, store, treasure, wealth, wealthiness, wideness), überfluss (abundance, exuberance, glut, plenty, profusion, superfluity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αφθονία (abundance, ampleness, amplitude, bounteousness, copiousness, galore, overplus, plenty, profusion, raft). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | שפע (abundance, affluency, excess, exuberance, glut, luxuriance, opulence, plenty, plethora, profusion, riches, superabundance, surfeit, wealth), עושר (abundance, affluency, lucre, opulence, riches, richness, wealth), 'ו"ש (abundance, glut, pile, plenitude, profusion, redundance, redundancy, repletion, surfeit), 'בירות (richness, wealth). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | bõség (abundance, ampleness, amplitude, exuberance, exuberancy, fill, galore, glut, opulence, plenty, superabundance, width). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | kemakmuran (prosperity), kelimpahan (abundance, excuberance), kekayaan (assets, means, wealth). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | ricchezza (abundance, means, money, richness, wealth). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 裕福 (prosperity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ゆうふく (prosperity), ゆとり (reserve, room, time). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | sonnys (felicity, fortune, good luck, luckiness, plentitude, satiety), palchys (abundance, copiousness, plenitude, plenteousness, plenty), palchid (abundance, copiousness, plenitude, plenteousness, plentifulness, plenty). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | tilstrømning (influx). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Papiamen | rikesa (abundance, wealth). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | affluenceay riqueza (abundance, fullness, fulness, gold, mellowness, moneybag, opulence, pelican, pregnant, property, prosperity, riches, richness, success, treasure, wealth). (various references) afluenţã (concourse, confluence, influx, resort, rush, throng), belşug (abundance, amplitude, copiousness, exuberance, exuberancy, flow, galore, luxuriance, opulence, plenty, profusion, riches, store, thriving, wealth). (various references) приток (affluent, afflux, feeder, indraft, indraught, inflow, influent, tributary), изобилие (abundance, ampleness, bags of, exuberance, exuberancy, galore, luxuriance, myriad number, opulence, plenitude, plentifulness, plethora, prodigality, profusion, riot). (various references) s ibhreas (opulence, riches). (various references) priticanje (afflux, indraft, indraught), obilje (abundance, fleshpot, flesh-pot, fullness, profusion), bogatstvo (fortune, moneybags, opulence, pelf, resource, riches, richness, weal, wealth). (various references) riqueza (abundance, ennoblement, love, mammon, money, moneybag, riches, richness, wealth). (various references) rikedom (abundance, luxuriance, mammon, opulence, riches, richness, variety, wealth, wealthiness). (various references) zenginlik (abundance, circumstance, circumstances, fortune, opulence, prosperity, riches, richness, substance, substantiality, wealth), servet (abundance, assets, effects, fortune, gold, havings, means, pile, possessions, property, riches, shekels, substance, treasure, wealth), bolluk (abundance, ampleness, amplitude, bonanza, copiousness, cornucopia, effusion, effusiveness, exuberance, exuberancy, fleshpot, fleshpots, flood, fullness, fulness, glut, handsomeness, horn of plenty, lashings, looseness, luxuriance, luxuriancy, opulence, overflowing, plenitude, plenteousness, plentifulness, plenty, plethora, prodigality, profuseness, profusion, prolificacy, prolificness, prosperity, rankness, richness, store, stores, superfluity, wealth, wideness, width), çokluk (ampleness, amplitude, commonness, considerable, crowd, fullness, fulness, heaviness, host, lashings, muchness, multeity, multiplicity, multitude, plenitude, plentifulness, plenty, plethora, plurality, superfluity, throng, vastness). (various references) скупчення (accumulation, agglomerate, agglomeration, aggregation, assemblage, cluster, collection, concourse, confluence, conflux, congeries, lodgement, lodgment, mass), наплив (callus, dissolve, inundation, onrush, wipe), багатство (bag, capital, fortune, mammon, means, moneybag, oof, opulence, pocket, profusion, purse, riches, richness, the dollars, thrift, wad, weal, wealth), приплив (afflux, back water, flood, flow, flux, inflow, inflowing, influx, onflow, onrush), достаток (abundance, competence, competency, exuberance, exuberancy, fertileness, fertility, fullness, fulness, galore, glut, opulence, plenitude, plenty, prodigality, profusion, store, sufficiency, wealth). (various references) sự sung túc (plenitude, plenteousness, plenty), sự phong phú (abundance, amplitude, copiousness, galore, opulence, plenteousness, plenty, prolificacy, prolificity, prolificness, richness), sự d"i d o (amplitude, bounteousness, copiousness, galore, plenteousness, plenty, pregnancy, profuseness, profusion). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | affluencia, sufficientia. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "affluence": affluences. (additional references) | |
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"Affluence" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: afflunce, affuence, affulence, afluence, ifluence. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "affluence" (pronounced a"fluwuns) |
| 6 | -f l uw u n s | confluence, influence. |
| 4 | -uw u n s | congruence, continuance, discontinuance, issuance. |
| 3 | -u n s | abeyance, abhorrence, absence, abstinence, abundance, acceptance, accordance, acquaintance, acquiescence, adherence, admirations, admittance, adolescence, allegiance, alliance, allowance, ambiance, ambience, ambivalence, ambulance, annoyance, appearance, appliance, arrogance, ascendance, assistance, assurance, attendance, audience, avoidance, balance, belligerence, beneficence, benevolence, bioscience, brilliance, cadence, capacitance, chrominance, circumference, clairvoyance, Clarence, clearance, coexistence, cognizance, coherence, coincidence, coinsurance, comeuppance, competence, compliance, concurrence, condolence, conference, confidence, conformance, connivance, conscience, consequence, consistence, contrivance, convalescence, convenience, convergence, conveyance, correspondence, countenance, counterbalance, counterintelligence, credence, dalliance, decadence, Defeasance, deference, defiance, deliverance, dependence, deterrence, deviance, difference, diligence, disallowance, disappearance, disobedience, dissidence, dissonance, distance, disturbance, divergence, dominance, ebullience, elegance, eloquence, emergence, eminence, endurance, entrance, equivalence, essence, evanescence, evidence, excellence, existence, expedience, experience, extravagance, exuberance, flamboyance, Florence, forbearance, fragrance, furtherance, governance, grievance, guidance, hindrance, ignorance, imbalance, immanence, imminence, impatience, impedance, importance, impotence, imprudence, inadvertence, incidence, incoherence, incompetence, incontinence, inconvenience, independence, indifference, inductance, indulgence, inexperience, inference, inheritance, innocence, insignificance, insistence, insolence, instance, insurance, intelligence, interdependence, interference, intolerance, intransigence, invariance, irrelevance, irreverence, jurisprudence, licence, license, luminance, luminescence, maintenance, malfeasance, negligence, neuroscience, noncompliance, noninterference, nonviolence, nuisance, obedience, observance, obsolescence, occurrence, omnipotence, omnipresence, opulence, ordinance, Ordnance, overabundance, overconfidence, overdependence, overreliance, parlance, patience, penance, performance, permanence, persecutions, perseverance, persistence, pestilence, petulance, phosphorescence, pittance, precedence, predominance, preeminence, preference, preponderance, prescience, presence, prevalence, prominence, protuberance, provenance, Providence, province, prudence, pseudoscience, quintessence, radiance, reappearance, reassurance, recalcitrance, recognizance, reconnaissance, recurrence, reemergence, reference, reinspections, reinsurance, relevance, reliance, reluctance, remembrance, reminiscence, remittance, repentance, resemblance, residence, resilience, resistance, resonance, resurgence, reticence, reverence, riddance, science, semblance, senescence, sentence, sequence, severance, significance, silence, submergence, subservience, subsidence, subsistence, substance, surveillance, sustenance, teleconference, temperance, tolerance, transcendence, transference, transience, turbulence, unbalance, utterance, Valence, variance, vehemence, vengeance, videoconference, vigilance, violence, virulence. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-f-f-l-n-u" | |
-2 letters: feculae. | |
-3 letters: canful, cuneal, efface, enface, enlace, fecula, lacune, launce, unlace. | |
-4 letters: anele, clean, fecal, fence, lance, luffa, ulnae, uncle. | |
-5 letters: acne, alec, alee, alef, cafe, caff, calf, cane, caul, clan, clef, clue, cuff, elan, face, fane, faun, feal, feel, flan, flea, flee, flue, fuel, lace, lane, leaf, lean, luce, luff, luna, lune, ulan, ulna. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-f-f-l-n-u" | |
+1 letter: affluences. | |
+2 letters: affluencies, ineffectual. | |
+3 letters: unaffectedly. | |
+4 letters: candlesnuffer, effectualness, ineffectually. | |
+5 letters: candlesnuffers, fancifulnesses, ineffectuality, ultraefficient. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 66 66 6C 75 65 6E 63 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- ..-. ..-. .-.. ..- . -. -.-. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01100110 01100110 01101100 01110101 01100101 01101110 01100011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A f f l u e n c e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0066 0066 006C 0075 0065 006E 0063 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)357272788771806971 |
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