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Definition: Rich |
RichAdjective1. Possessing material wealth; "her father is extremely rich"; "many fond hopes are pinned on rich uncles". 2. Having an abundant supply of desirable qualities or substances (especially natural resources); "blessed with a land rich in minerals"; "rich in ideas"; "rich with cultural interest". 3. Of great worth or quality; "a rich collection of antiques". 4. Marked by great fruitfulness; "fertile farmland"; "a fat land"; "a productive vineyard"; "rich soil". 5. Strong; intense; "deep purple"; "a rich red". 6. Very productive; "rich seams of coal". 7. (metallurgy; chemistry) high in mineral content; "a rich vein of copper". 8. Suggestive of or characterized by great expense; "a rich display". 9. Marked by richness and fullness of flavor; "a rich ruby port"; "full-bodied wines"; "a robust claret"; "the robust flavor of fresh-brewed coffee". 10. : highly seasoned or containing large amounts of choice ingredients such as butter or sugar or eggs; "kept gorging on rich foods"; "rich pastries"; "rich eggnogg". 11. : pleasantly full and mellow; "a rich tenor voice". 12. : affording an abundant supply; "had ample food for the party"; "copious provisions"; "food is plentiful"; "a plenteous grape harvest"; "a rich supply". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Rich" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a brave power". |
Date "rich" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Satire | RICH, adj. Holding in trust and subject to an accounting the property of the indolent, the incompetent, the unthrifty, the envious and the luckless. That is the view that prevails in the underworld, where the Brotherhood of Man finds its most logical development and candid advocacy. To denizens of the midworld the word means good and wise. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
Aerospace | Of a combustible mixture: having a relatively high proportion of fuel to oxidizer; more precisely, having a value greater than stoichiometric. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | Rich in body or substance. High extract content. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The word rich has many meanings:
Rich can also be short for the name Richard or Richie.
- Wealthy: "Bill Gates is a rich man."
- Having lots of natural resources: "Alaska is rich in oil."
- Elaborate or luxurious: "That was a very rich banquet."
- Being of good qualities or ingredients: "The chocolate cake was very rich."
- Full, deep, mellow or vivid: "The painter used a very rich palette."
- Very amusing or absurd (Slang): "Give you $20? Yeah, that's rich."
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Rich."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Wealth usually refers to money and property. It is the abundance of objects of value and also the state of having accumulated these objects. The use of the word itself assumes some socially-accepted means of identifying objects, land, or money as "belonging to" someone, i.e. a broadly accepted notion of property and a means of protection of that property that can be invoked with minimal (or, ideally, no) effort and expense on the part of the owner. Concepts of wealth vary among societies.
The Anthropological view of Wealth
Anthropology characterizes societies, in part, based on a society's concept of wealth, and the institutional structures and power used to protect this wealth. Several types are defined below. They can be viewed as an evolutionary progression.
A rudimentary notion of wealth
- Great Apes seem to have notions of "turf" and control of food-gathering ranges, but it is questionable whether they understand this as a form of wealth. They acquire and use limited tools but these objects typically do not change, are simple to re-create, and therefore are unlikely to be seen as objects of wealth. Gorillas seem to have the capacity to recognize and protect pets and children, but this seems less an idea of wealth than of family.
The interpersonal concept of wealth
- Hominoids, including all human ancestors, seem to have started with incipient ideas of wealth, similar to that of the great apes. But as tools, clothing, and other mobile infrastructural capital became important to survival (especially in hostile biomes), ideas such as the inheritance of wealth, political positions, leadership, and ability to control group movements (to perhaps reinforce such power) emerged. Neanderthal societies had elaborate funerary rites and cave painting which implies at least a notion of shared assets that could be spent for social purposes, or preserved for social purposes. Wealth may have been collective.
Wealth as the accumulation of non-necessities
- Humans back to and including the Cro-Magnons seem to have had clearly defined rulers and status hierarchies. Digs in Russia have revealed elaborate funeral clothing on a pair of children buried there over 35,000 years ago. This indicates a considerable accumulation of wealth by some individuals or families. The high artisan skill also suggest the capacity to direct specialized labor to tasks that are not of any utility to the group's survival.
Wealth as control of arable land
- Irrigation and urbanization, especially in ancient Sumer and later Egypt, are thought to have triggered a shift that unified the ideas of wealth and control of land and agriculture. To Feed a large stable population, it was possible and necessary to achieve universal cultivation and city-state protection. The notion of the state and the notion of war are said to have emerged at this time. Tribal cultures were formalized into what we would call feudal systems, and many obligations were assumed by monarchy and related aristocracy. Protection of infrastructural capital built up over generations became critical: city walls, irrigation systems, sewage systems, aqueducts, buildings, all impossible to replace within a single generation, and thus a matter of social survival to maintain. The social capital of entire societies was often defined in terms of its relation to infrastructural capital ( e.g. castles or forts or an allied monastery, cathedral or temple), and natural capital, (i.e. the land that supplied locally grown food). Agricultural economics continues these traditions in the analyses of modern agricultural policy and related ideas of wealth, e.g. the ark of taste model of agricultural wealth.
The capitalist notion of wealth
- Industrialization emphasized the role of technology. Many jobs were automated. Machines replaced some workers while other workers became more specialized. Labour specialization became critical to economic success. However, physical capital, as it came to be known, consisting of both the natural capital (raw materials from nature) and the infrastructural capital (facilitating technology), became the focus of the analysis of wealth. Adam Smith saw wealth creation as the combination of materials, labour, land, and technology in such a way as to capture a profit. The theories of David Ricardo, John Locke, John Stuart Mill, and later, Karl Marx, in the 18th century and 19th century built on these views of wealth that we now call classical economics and Marxist economics.
Other Concepts of Wealth
Global wealth
- Michel Foucault commented that the concept of Man as an aggregate did not exist before the 18th century. The shift from the analysis of an individual's wealth to the concept of an aggregation of all men is implied in the concepts of political economy and then economics. This transition took place as a result of a cultural bias inherent in the Enlightenment. Wealth was seen as an objective fact of living as a human being in a society.
Zero-Sum Game
- Some people believe wealth is a zero-sum game, where there is a limited amount of wealth and some must lose in order for others to gain. As a result they are concerned primarily with issues of wealth distribution rather than wealth creation.
- Others believe that wealth can be readily created. They feel that wealth is not a fixed amount to be distributed. To most of these people, organizing a society so as to optimize the growth of wealth is more important than distribution issues. Many of these people believe in some version of the trickle-down theory in which newly created wealth "trickles down" to all strata of society, thereby making the question of distribution mute.
- One's attitude towards this issue affects the design of the social or economic system that one prefers.
The non-normative concept of wealth
- Neoclassical economics tries to be non-normative for the most part, to be objective and free of value statements. If it is successful, then wealth would be defined in such a way that it would not be preconceived to be either positive or negative. This objective has not always been the case. In prior eras wealth was assumed to be a set of means of persuasion.
- It was often seen as self-interested arguments by the powerful explaining why they should remain in power. In The Prince, Niccolo Machiavelli had commented in that earlier era on the prudent use of wealth, and the need to tolerate some cruelty and vice in the use of it, in order to maintain appearances of strength and power.
- Jane Jacobs in the 1960s and 70s offered the observation that there were two different moral syndromes that were common attitudes to wealth and power, and that the one more associated with guardianship did in fact require a degree of ostentacious conspicuous consumption if only to impress others.
- This logic is almost entirely absent from neoclassical economics, which in its extreme form argues for the abolition of any political economy apart from the service markets wherein favours may be bought and sold at will, including political ones - the so-called political choice theory popular in the U.S.A. While it is entirely likely that such assumptions apply in the subcultures that dominate modern discourse on technical economics and especially macroeconomics, the less technical notions of wealth and power that are implied in the older theories of economics and ideas of wealth, still continue as daily facts of life.
Non financial wealth
- The 21st century view is that many definitions of wealth can exist and continue to co-exist. Some people talk about measuring the more general concept of Measuring well-being. This is a difficult process but many believe it possible - human development theory being devoted to this. Although these alternative measures of wealth exist, they tend to be overshadowed by, and influenced by, the dominant money supply and banking system. For more on the modern notions of wealth and their interaction see the article on political economy.
The Creation of Wealth
- Wealth is created through several means.
- Natural resources can be harvested and sold to those who want them.
- Material can be changed into something more valuable through proper application of labor and equipment.
- Better methods also create wealth by allowing faster creation of wealth.
- Ideas create wealth by allowing it to be created faster or with new methods.
- For example, consider our early ancestors. Building a house from trees created something of greater value for the builder. Hunting and firewood created food and fed a growing family. Agriculture converted labor into more food and resources. Continuing use of resources and effort has allowed many descendants to own much more than that first house.
- This is still true today. It is more obvious to those working with physical material than to a service worker or knowledge worker. A cubicle worker may not be aware in how many ways their work is creating something which is of more value to their employer than the amount that employer paid to produce it. This profit creates wealth for the owners of the organization. The process also provides income for employees, and suppliers, and it makes the continued existence of the organization possible.
The Limits to Wealth Creation
- There is a debate in the economics literature, usually referred to as the limits to growth debate in which the ecological impact of growth and wealth creation is considered. Many of the wealth creating activities mentioned above (cutting down trees, hunting, farming) have an impact on the environment around us. Sometimes the impact is positive (for example, hunting when herd populations are high) and sometimes the impact is negative (for example, hunting when herd populations are low).
- Most researchers feel that sustained environmental impacts can have an effect on the whole ecosystem. They claim that the accumlated impacts on the ecosystem put a theortical limit on the amount of wealth that can be created. They draw on archeology to cite examples of cultures that they claim have disappeared because they grew beyond the ability of their ecosystems to support them.
- Others are more otimistic. They claim that although localized environmental impacts may occur, large scale ecological effects are either minor (in terms of magnitude) or non-existant. They sometimes claim that if these global scale ecological effects exist, human ingenuity will always find ways of adapting to them. To them, there is no limit to the amount of growth or wealth that this planet will sustain.
The Distribution of wealth
- Societies have different opinions about wealth distribution and of the obligations related to wealth, but from the era of the tribal society to the modern era, there have been means of moderating the acquisition and use of wealth.
- In extremely ecologically rich areas such as those inhabited by the Haida in the Cascadia Pacific East Rim ecoregion, traditions like potlatch kept wealth relatively evenly distributed, requiring leaders to buy continued status and respect with giveaways of wealth to the poorer members of society. Such traditions make what are today often seen as government responsibilities into matters of personal honour.
- In modern societies, the tradition of philanthropy exists. Large donations from funds created by wealthy individuals are highly visible, although small contributions by many people offer a wide variety of support within a society. The existence of organizations which survive on donations indicate that a society has some level of philanthropy.
- In today’s societies much wealth distribution and redistribution is the result of government policies and programs. Government policies like the progressivity or regressivity of the tax system redistribute wealth to the poor or the rich respectively. Government programs like “disaster relief” transfer wealth to people that have suffered a loss due to natural disaster. Social security transfers wealth from the young to the old. Engaging in a war transfers wealth to certain sectors of society. Public education transfers wealth to families with children in these schools. Public road construction transfers wealth from people that do not use the roads to those people that do (and to those that build the roads). Some people resent having to contribute to some of these programs and disparagingly label them social engineering. The mere existence of government, transfers wealth from people in the private sector to people in the public sector. Contrawise, the existence of a private sector transfers wealth from people in the public sector to people in the private sector
- This phenomenon can be understood within a broad theory of political economy, where tradeoffs between means of protection, persuasion and production, and valuations of different styles of capital, are described. Simply put, if the rich do not at least once in a while give away, on their own free will, at least a small part of their richness to the poor, the poor would be much more likely to rebel against the rich.
- The concepts of owning land and accumulating wealth in the form of land, were and are difficult to characterize in Enlightenment terms, bearing more resemblance to modern ideas of bioregionalism or ecological stewardship or natural capital. Ecological economics continues these traditions.
Related articles
- poverty
- wealth condensation
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
RICH | English | Ring imaging Cerenkov detector | Meteorology & Standards |
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Synonyms: RichSynonyms: ample (adj), copious (adj), deep (adj), fat (adj), fertile (adj), full-bodied (adj), plenteous (adj), plentiful (adj), productive (adj), robust (adj). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: full-bodied (food & agriculture). |
| Antonyms: lean (adj), poor (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Beauty | Rich, superb, magnificent, grand, fine, sublime, showy, specious. |
Ornament | Adjective: ornamented, beautified; Verb: ornate, rich, gilt, begilt, tesselated, festooned; champleve, cloisonne, topiary. |
Adjective: ornament; Verb: beautified; ornate, florid, rich, flowery; euphuistic, euphemistic; sonorous; high-sounding, big-sounding; inflated, swelling, tumid; turgid, turgescent; pedantic, pompous, stilted; orotund; high flown, high flowing; sententious, rhetorical, declamatory; grandiose; grandiloquent, magniloquent, altiloquent; sesquipedal, sesquipedalian; Johnsonian, mouthy; bombastic; fustian; frothy, flashy, flaming. | |
Prosperity | Adjective: prosperous; thriving; Verb: in a fair way, buoyant; well off, well to do, well to do in the world; set up, at one's ease; rich; in good case; in full, in high feather; fortunate, lucky, in luck; born with a silver spoon in one's mouth, born under a lucky star; on the sunny side of the hedge. |
Savoriness | Adjective: savory, delicious, tasty, well-tasted, to one's taste, good, palatable, nice, dainty, delectable; toothful, toothsome; gustful, appetizing, lickerish, delicate, exquisite, rich, luscious, ambrosial, scrumptious, delightful. |
Sufficiency | Rich; luxuriant; (fertile); affluent; (wealthy); wantless; big with; (pregnant). |
Time | D calendas Groecas; "panting Time toileth after him in vain"; "'gainst the tooth of time and razure of oblivion "; " rich with the spoils of time"; tempus edax rerum; "the long hours come and go"; "the time is out of joint"; "Time rolls his ceaseless course"; "Time the foe of man's dominion"; "time wasted is existence, used is life"; truditur dies die; volat hora per orbem; carpe diem. |
Wealth | Verb: be rich; Adjective: roll in wealth, roll in riches, wallow in wealth, wallow in riches. |
Rich man, moneyed man, warm man; man of substance; capitalist, millionaire, tippybob, Nabob, Croesus, idas, Plutus, Dives, Timon of Athens; Timocracy, Plutocracy; Danae. | |
Made of money; rich as Croesus, filthy rich, rich as a Jew; rolling in riches, rolling in wealth. | |
Become rich; Adjective: 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; (treasury); feather one's nest, make a fortune; make money; (acquire). | |
Adjective: wealthy, rich, affluent, opulent, moneyed, monied, worth much; well to do, well off; warm; comfortable, well, well provided for. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Rich |
| Specialty definitions using "rich": Passing Rich ♦ Ramsay the Rich, Rich as a Jew, Rich as Croesus, RICH FACE, rich object, Rich Text Format. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "rich": Unmoneyed. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Rich" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Romany (bear). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Did I mention that my father's filthy rich and I'll be working for free (A Time to Kill; writing credit: Akiva Goldsman) It was rich, almost sweet, like the scent of jasmine and roses around our old courtyard (Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles; writing credit: Anne Rice) A place rich with all the strange beauty of your nighttime dreams (Seven Years in Tibet; writing credit: Becky Johnston) I'm rich. I'm richer than all this new Hollywood trash (Sunset Blvd.; writing credit: Charles Brackett) She's beautiful, she's rich, she's got huge tracts of land (Monty Python and the Holy Grail; writing credit: Graham Chapman; John Cleese) | |
Lyrics | But i'm hood rich da dada dada da (Still Fly; performing artist: Big Tymers) They all say I'm rotten and rich (Hey Ma; performing artist: Cam'ron) Decide if you are rich or you're poor (Miss Me Blind; performing artist: Culture Club) Get down, bitches they be feelin' me, rich now (That's What I'm Looking For; performing artist: Da Brat) It's a rich man's game (9 To 5; performing artist: Dolly Parton) | |
Clever | A thief passes for a gentleman, when stealing has made him rich. (references; author: Ancient Proverb) Only the brave deserve the fair, but only rich, fat, cowardly merchants can afford same. (references; author: Chinese Proverb) Rich earn; smart learn. (references; author: unknown) The rich invest; the smart investigate. (references; author: unknown) You can't help the poor man by destroying the rich. (references; author: unknown) | |
Tongue Twisters | Which rich wicked witch wished the wicked wish? (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Haunts of the Very Rich (1972) Rich and Judy (1971) Poor Little Rich Girl (1965) I'd Rather Be Rich (1964) Rich and Prosperous (1964) | |
Song Titles | Wood-Tick Song, The (performing artist: Rich and Roady) Nobody Knows (performing artist: Tony Rich Project) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Hubble telescope images of Mars detail a rich geologic history and provide further evidence ... Credit: NASA. |  | This Hubble telescope image of a rich cluster of galaxies called Abell 2218 is a spectacular ... Credit: NASA. |
 | Image of the rich galaxy cluster, Abell 2218. Credit: NASA. |  | Cartoon by Alexander Wadsworth Longfellow, brother of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Alexander was dreaming of getting rich on railroad stocks. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Lieutenants Dave Neander (l) and Rich Behn (r) at Seal Island They're really in the "cold seat!". Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | Leopard seal; Lieutenants Rich Behn and Dave Neander gingerly approach large leopard seal. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | A close up view of quahogs after being harvested. The shells are covered in mud but still display a beautiful rich hue. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | The containment dike as seen from a distance, the murky water indicates the rich sediment sources of the Atchafalaya River. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
 | Jobos Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. The abundance of oysters on the mangrove roots is an indicator of the rich productivity of estuarine waters. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |  | Staff Sgt. Rich Cory, Staff Sgt. William Hight and Staff Sgt. Chuck Smith. |
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| "Rich" by Andrew Millington Commentary: "Suffering from slope fatigue above Tignes, France." | "Rich Textures 1" by Shonna Clark Commentary: "Random textures from around the house." |
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| Play | Caption |
 | Sauce; cooking; Italian food; hot; spicy; rich; homemade; spaghetti; pasta; . |
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| Author | Quotation |
Author Unknown | Live poor so you can die rich. |
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | Giving is the business of the rich. |
Menander of Athens | No just person ever became quickly rich. |
Oliver Goldsmith | The jests of the rich are ever successful. |
Peter De Vries | The rich aren't like us; they pay less taxes. |
Wallis Warfield | You can never be too rich or too thin. |
William Shakespeare | No legacy is so rich as honestly. |
| 'Tis the mind that makes the body rich. | |
| Poor and content is rich, and rich enough. | |
| Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind. | |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | First, They are to govern by promulgated established laws, not to be varied in particular cases, but to have one rule for rich and poor, for the favourite at court, and the country man at plough. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Marbury v. Madison | 1803 | It is in these words: "I do solemnly swear that I will administer justice without respect to persons, and do equal right to the poor and to the rich; and that I will faithfully and impartially discharge all the duties incumbent on me as _____, according to the best of my abilities and understanding, agreeably to the constitution, and laws of the United States." (reference) |
John F. Kennedy | 1961 | If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. (reference) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | His own stomach could bear nothing rich, and he could never believe other people to be different from himself |
Lady of the Ladle | Carroll, Lewis | And he had scaled that wondrous stair That soars from earth to upper air, Where rich and poor alike must climb, And walk the treadmill for a time |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Upon entering, he who was rich becomes poor |
Alexander's Feast | John Dryden | Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure,-- Sweet is pleasure after pain |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | The little silk badge with the red rose on it looked very rich because he had a blue sailor top on. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | The country was rich along the roadside |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | But beside all this, the bulk of our people supported themselves by furnishing the necessities or conveniences of life to the rich, and to each other |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | I refer to the degraded poor, not now to the degraded rich. |
The Tempest | William Shakespeare | Ariel (singing): Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Butter and margarines are rich in calories. (references) | |
Medicaid Illness strikes both rich and poor families. (references) | ||
Medicare and Medicaid Illness strikes both rich and poor families. (references) | ||
Business | With a growing number of rich Poles, the number of such projects is also growing. (references) | |
In recent years, the Saudi construction market has shifted to a credit rather than a cash rich market. (references) | ||
Also, the tours into Soweto as well as the rich history in Zululand are good examples of cultural tourism. (references) | ||
Children | Pakistan | In rural areas, it is a traditional practice for poor parents to give children to rich landlords in exchange for money or land, according to human rights advocates. (references) |
Economic History | Bolivia | Bolivia has rich folklore. (references) |
Chad | Chad has a long and rich history. (references) | |
Human Rights | Colombia | According to press reports, local officials said that the mass slaying signals a possible push by the AUC into the mineral rich region that had been a bastion of guerrillas. (references) |
Libya | The Purification Committees reportedly seized some "excessive" amounts of private wealth from members of the middle and affluent classes; the confiscated property was taken from the rich to be given to the poor, in an effort to appease the populace and to strengthen the Government's power and control over the country. (references) | |
Minorities | Iraq | These communities speak a different language (Syriac), preserve traditions of Christianity, and have a rich cultural and historical heritage that they trace back more than 2,000 years. (references) |
Political Economy | El Salvador | Impunity for the rich and powerful remained a problem. (references) |
Guyana | Guyana is rich in gold, diamonds, timber, and bauxite. (references) | |
Panama | Poverty persists and income distribution remains extremely skewed with large disparities between rich and poor. (references) | |
Travel | Egypt | Colloquial Cairene Arabic is expressive and rich in words of Coptic, European and Turkish origins. (references) |
Belgium | Belgium is also home to an extraordinary rich media offering the broadest selection of television channels in Europe. (references) | |
Luxembourg | Luxembourg is also home to extraordinarily rich media coverage, offering the broadest selection of television channels in Europe. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | DISTANCE, n. The only thing that the rich are willing for the poor to call theirs, and keep. |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Rosie O'Donnell | I am and I don't even necessarily feel rich, even though I know that am, but I have some guy who does my money, my brother-in-law, actually. |
Rush Limbaugh | This gap between the rich and the poor is a myth. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | The lead mines in that district offer so rich a supply of that metal as to merit attention. |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | Many of our rich men have not been content with equal protection and equal benefits, but have besought us to make them richer by act of Congress. |
Woodrow Wilson | 1913-1921 | Our life contains every great thing, and contains it in rich abundance. |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | Through the use of the waters of the Columbia River, for example, we are creating a rich agricultural area as large as the State of Delaware. |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | In a land rich in harvest, children just must not go hungry. |
Richard Nixon | 1969-1974 | I ask you to join in a high adventure--one as rich as humanity itself, and as exciting as the times we live in. |
Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | We are well launched on this process of shaping positive and reliable economic relations between rich nations and poor nations over the long term. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | Let the skeptics look to Islam's own rich history, with its centuries of learning, and tolerance and progress. |
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| "Rich" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 94.41% of the time. "Rich" is used about 6,901 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 94.41% | 6,515 | 1,488 |
| Noun (proper) | 5.53% | 382 | 14,400 |
| Unclassified Items | 0.06% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 6,901 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "rich" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Rich | First name Male | 7,000 | 821 |
| Rich | Last name | 19,000 | 611 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| "Rich" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a brave power". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "Rich." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Richelle | Female | N/A | Richard |
| Richard | Male | Czech | N/A |
| Dick | Male | English | Richard |
| Rich | Male | English | Richard |
| Richard | Male | English | N/A |
| Richardine | Female | English | Richard |
| Richendra | Female | English | Richard |
| Richie | Male | English | Richard |
| Richmal | Female | English | Richard |
| Rick | Male | English | Richard |
| Rickey | Male | English | Richard |
| Rickie | Male | English | Richard |
| Ricky | Male | English | Richard |
| Rik | Male | English | Richard |
| Rikard | Male | Finnish | Richard |
| Rikhard | Male | Finnish | Richard |
| Riku | Male | Finnish | Richard |
| Richard | Male | French | N/A |
| Ricarda | Female | German | Richard |
| Richard | Male | German | N/A |
| Richárd | Male | Hungarian | Richard |
| Rikárd | Male | Hungarian | Richard |
| Risteárd | Male | Irish | Richard |
| Riccarda | Female | Italian | Richard |
| Riccardo | Male | Italian | Richard |
| Ryszard | Male | Polish | Richard |
| Ricardo | Male | Portuguese | Richard |
| Rikard | Male | Scandinavian | Richard |
| Ricarda | Female | Spanish | Richard |
| Ricardo | Male | Spanish | Richard |
| Rhisiart | Male | Welsh | Richard |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Hong Kong | China Rich Holdings Limited | USA | Rich Coast Inc. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
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| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "rich": rich-bitch, rich-busy-man, rich-coloured, rich-colouring, rich-country, rich-for-life, rich-hued, rich-kid, rich-lists, rich-little-poor-girl, rich-looking, rich-poor, rich-quick, rich-smelling, rich-tasting, rich-world, rich-yolked. | |
Ending with "rich": at-rich, calcium-rich, capital-rich, carbohydrate-rich, carbon-rich, cash-rich, cholesterol-rich, clay-rich, cysteine-rich, dollar-rich, energy-rich, fern-rich, fibre-rich, flower-rich, food-rich, gas-rich, gc-rich, glutamine-rich, herb-rich, humus-rich, information-rich, iron-rich, lime-rich, magnesium-rich, mega-rich, methane-rich, mineral-rich, newly-rich, nitrogen-rich, nutrient-rich, oil-rich, organic-rich, over-rich, oxygen-rich, ozone-rich, platelet-rich, potassium-rich, proline-rich, protein-rich, radon-rich, resource-rich, silica-rich, sodium-rich, species-rich, super-rich, triglyceride-rich, volatile-rich. | |
Containing "rich": get-rich-quick. | |
| 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
rich | 572 | richie rich | 107 |
lifestyles of the rich and famous | 528 | 50 cent die get rich tryin | 100 |
rich dad poor dad | 518 | protein rich food | 95 |
eisen rich | 466 | rich people | 95 |
get rich | 352 | rich product | 91 |
iron rich food | 335 | devil die eat evil god greater have if it it it ll more need poor rich than than | 89 |
bc rich | 281 | rich s.com | 83 |
rich mullins | 265 | think and grow rich | 81 |
get rich quick | 256 | 50 cent die get rich trying | 79 |
get rich or die tryin | 253 | harden rich | 78 |
get rich or die trying | 199 | rich media | 78 |
life style of the rich and famous | 193 | become rich | 77 |
rich and famous | 162 | rich man poor man | 77 |
buddy rich | 157 | charlotte famous good lifestyles lyrics rich | 74 |
bc rich guitar | 157 | food in iron rich | 73 |
potassium rich food | 148 | calcium rich food | 70 |
tony rich project | 136 | b.c rich | 69 |
rich dad | 135 | fiber rich food | 65 |
charlie rich | 118 | famous lifestyle rich | 64 |
adrienne rich | 116 | famous lifestyles lyrics rich | 63 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "rich"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | ryk (affluent, wealthy, well-off). (various references) | |
Albanian | të pasurit (riches), pjellor (fat, fecund, fertile, fruitful, genital, loamy, mellow, pinguid, prolific), pasur (affluent, wealthy, well-off), pasanik (croesus, moneybags, nob, toff, wealthy), luksoz (baronial, de luxe, exclusive, fancy, lavish, luxurious, palatial, plushy, rank, recherche, refined, Swan, swanky, swell), i ushqyeshëm (nourishing, nutrient, nutritive), i pasur (affluent, exuberant, fruity, luxuriant, mellow, opulent, pay, podded, wealthy, well heeled, well off, well to do), i larmishëm (diversified, variant, varicolored, varicoloured, varied, variegated), i çmuar (precious, valuable, valued). (various references) | |
Arabic | فخم (deluxe, grand, grandiose, imperial, imposing, lordly, luxurious, magnificent, majestic, noble, palatial, plushy, pompous, pontifical, regal, royal, splendid, stately, substantial, sumptuous, superb), موسر (affluent, moneyed, opulent, wealthy, well heeled, well to do), مترف (deluxe, luxuriant, luxurious, splendid, sumptuous, superb, sybaritic), وافر (abundant, affluency, affluent, ample, bounteous, bountiful, copious, exuberant, flush, galore, generous, lavish, liberal, myriad, numerous, opulent, overblown, plentiful, plenty, productive, profluent, profuse, rampant, rank, redundant, rife, riotous, ripe, voluminous), واسع (ample, broad, capacious, colossal, extensive, fair, far flung, generous, immense, large, mighty, oceanic, spacious, wide, widish), غني بالموارد الطبيعية, غني (affluent, in the money, loaded, mean, moneyed, opulent, plushy, spacious, substantial, wealthy, well off, well to do), سخي (bounteous, freehanded, generous, lavish, liberal, munificent, noble-minded, open, open handed, princely, prodigal, well-paid), خصب (fat, fecund, fertile, fertility, fruitful, lush, pregnant, prodigal, prodigality, productive, profuse, prolific), أنيق (bijou, chic, classy, coxcomb, dainty, dapper, dashing, dinky, dressy, elegant, exclusive, fine, gallant, genteel, good looking, gracious, jaunty, ladylike, mincing, natty, neat, nice, perky, personable, posh, presentable, saucy, seemly, sharp, smart, smug, sophisticated, spick and span, sporting, sportsmanlike, sporty, spruce, stylish, suave, swagger, swell, tailor made, taut, tidy, tight, trim, well groomed), أرج (fragrant, redolent), ثري (fat, moneyed, opulent, plushy, posh, privileged, prosperous, substantial, wealthy, well heeled, well off, well to do), دسم (add fat, be fat, creamy, fatty, oily), باهي (bright, brilliant, flourishing, glaring). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | много сладък (luscious), пикантен (gamy, gingery, juicy, piquant, poignant, pungent, racy, salacious, salt, salty, savoury, spicy, tasty, zesty), пищен (baronial, exuberant, flamboyant, florid, gaudy, gingerbread, gorgeous, lavish, lordly, luscious, lush, luxuriant, opulent, palatial, pompous, profuse, riotous, spectacular, splendid, theatrical, voluptuous, wanton), плодороден (benign, benignant, corny, fat, fecund, fertile, fruitful, generous, hearty, plenteous, productive, prolific, rank), плътен (closely-knit, compact, compacted, consistent, dense, fruity, open, orotund, resonant, rotund, round, solid, sonorous, stiff, thick), богат (abounding, bounteous, fat, full, generous, halcyon, heavy, high, lordly, luxuriant, mellow, moneyed, opulent, plenteous, podded, pregnant, princely, prodigal, profuse, prolific, rank, silk stocking, slap up, substantial, wanton, wealthy, well heeled, well off, well-fixed), заможен (fat, fixed, forehanded, propertied, warm, wealthy, well heeled, well off, well to do, well-fixed), мазен (fat, fatty, greasy, mellow, oily, oleaginous, pinguid, sleek, slimy, soapy, treacly, unctuous, yolky), изобилен (abounding, abundant, affluent, bountiful, copious, exuberant, fat, flush, free, good, hefty, liberal, luxuriant, opulent, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, prodigal, productive, profuse, prolific, rank, redundant, substantial, thick, unstinted, wealthy), много забавен (fruity, priceless, ripe), съдържащ много, нецензурен (dirty, fie-fie, hot, lewd, obscene, raunchy, raw, ribald, ripe, smoking room, unquotable), обилен (abundant, affluent, ample, exuberant, full, generous, hearty, liberal, lusty, plentiful, satisfying, ungrudging), гъст (bushy, dense, double, full-bodied, gross, heavy, impenetrable, stiff, stringy, thick, turbid, viscous), тлъст (adipose, fat, fatty, greasy, gross, pinguid, porky, puddingy, rank, tallowy, unctuous), тучен (lush, luxuriant), хранителен (alimentary, comestible, food, nourishing, nutrient, nutritious, nutritive), хубав (beautiful, bonny, fair, fine, good, good looking, goodly, handsome, jolly, neat, nice, nice-looking, personable, pretty, proper, seemly, sightly, well favored, well-favoured), мек (balmy, benign, benignant, bland, creamy, cushiony, doughy, ductile, euphemistic, flabby, flaccid, floppy, genial, green, kindly, lambent, limp, medium, meek, mellow, melodious, melting, mild, pillowy, round, silken, silver, soft, supple, tender, weak, well-padded, yielding). (various references) | |
Chinese | 富有 (full of). (various references) | |
Czech | bohatý (abundant, affluent, ample, bounteous, bountiful, copious, extensive, exuberant, generous, lavish, moneyed, opulent, plentiful, prostate, rife, voluminous, wealthy, well off). (various references) | |
Danish | rig (affluent, wealthy, well-off). (various references) | |
Dutch | vermogend (affluent, wealthy, well-off), gefortuneerd (affluent, wealthy, well-off). (various references) | |
Esperanto | riĉa (wealthy, well-off). (various references) | |
Faeroese | ríkur (affluent, wealthy, well-off). (various references) | |
Farsi | پرپشت (Exuberant, Lush, Steady, Thick), گرانبها (Inestimable, Lief, Valuable), غنی (Wealthy), توانگر (Wealthy), دولتمند (Affluent, Wealthy), باشکوه (Gala, Glorious, Imperial, Lush, Majestic, Noble, Plush, Rial, Stately, Superb). (various references) | |
Finnish | täyteläinen (full-bodied, mellow, plump), rikas (affluent, opulent, wealthy, well-off). (various references) | |
French | riche (riche person). (various references) | |
Frisian | ryk (affluent, wealthy, well-off). (various references) | |
German | reich (abundant, affluent, affluently, bounteous, bountiful, copious, costly, domain, empire, expensive, fertile, heavy, kingdom, large, lavish, lavishly, luxuriant, opulent, ornate, prolific, prosperous, reach, realm, richly, state, substantial, sumptuous, wealthily, wealthy, well-off, wide), reichhaltig (comprehensive, extensive, large, varied, wide). (various references) | |
Greek | με πλούσια γεύση (full, full bodied), πλούσιοσ (abundant in, moneyed, opulent, wealthy, well to do), πλούσιος σε γεύση (full, full bodied), πλούσιος (lush, wealthy), ταλαντούχοσ (gifted, talented). (various references) | |
Hawaiian | pasur (affluent, wealthy, well-off). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מהודר (adorned, chic, grand, luxurious, ornate, sporty, stylish), שופע (abounding, abundant, bounteous, bountiful, copious, fertile, flush, opulent, plentiful, profuse, superabundant, superfluous), עתיר נכסים (heeled, wealthy), עתיר (wealthy), עשיר (abundant, affluent, heeled, lush, opulent, plentiful, wealthy, well heeled), בעל אמצעים (man of means, person of means, wealthy), בעל כיס. (various references) | |
Hungarian | gazdag (affluent, be in the money, crackerjack, crummy, exuberant, fat, fraught, luxuriant, mellow, moneyed, plenteous, plentiful, redundant, spicy, superabundant, to be in the chips, wealthy, well heeled, well-off, well-to-do), dús (affluent, exuberant, fat, mellow, opulent, plenteous, rank). (various references) | |
Icelandic | ríkur (affluent, wealthy, well-off). (various references) | |
Indonesian | kaya (moneyed, well-to-do), kandel (heavy, thick, well-to-do), gemuk (buxom, corpulent, fat, fertiliser, grease, plumpy, stout, thick). (various references) | |
Irish | saibhir (affluent, wealthy, well-off). (various references) | |
Italian | ricco (abounding, abundant, affluent, empire, full, loaded, mellow, moneyed, pursy, realm, rich person, richer, rife, sumptuous, valuable, wealthier, wealthily, wealthy, well to do, well-off). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 豊麗 (beautiful, splendid), 豊か (abundant, plentiful, wealthy), 豊か (abundant, plentiful, wealthy), リチウム爆弾 (car with 1000cc engine, lip, lip cream, lip service, lipreading, lipstick, literacy, literal, literary, literature, lithium bomb, lithograph, Lithuania, litmus, litre, redisplay, reduce, ridge, ripple, rocking motion, small-scale finance), 有徳 (virtuous). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | リッチ , うとく (virtuous), ほうれい (beautiful, common people, laws and ordinances, rules concerning application of laws, splendid, the masses), ゆたか (abundant, plentiful, wealthy), ゆうとく (virtuous). (various references) | |
Korean | 부유한. (various references) | |
Manx | menoyragh (goodly), menoyr (goodly, luscious, mealy), mea (fat, luxuriant, thick), lajer (able-bodied, cogent, forcible, forte, hard, heady, heavy, high-power, high-powered, lusty, potent, powerful, pronounced, sound, stark, stout, strong, vigorous, vigorous as plant), dowin (deeply, deep-rooted, involved, low, low-pitched, penetrating, profound, rapt, secretive, thorough, uncommunicative), costallagh (costly, precious), berchagh (opulent, wealthy, well-to-do). (various references) | |
Maya | ayiktal (to get rich). (various references) | |
Norwegian | rik (affluent, wealthy, well-off). (various references) | |
Papiamen | riku (affluent, wealthy, well-off), riko (affluent, wealthy, well-off). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ichray.(various references) | |
Polish | bogaty (affluent, wealthy, well-off). (various references) | |
Portuguese | rico (abundant, affluent, costly, crummy, flush, livery, moneyed, opulent, plenteous, plummy, plump, podded, pregnant, racy, resourceful, saturated, substantial, wealthy, well-heeled, well-off, well-to-do). (various references) | |
Romanian | bogat (abundant, abundantly, affluent, ample, amply, bonanza, bountiful, copious, copiously, expensive, exuberant, fat, feathered, fertile, fortuned, free, full, fully, gaudy, heeled, high, highly, lush, luxurious, moneyed, opulent, pecunious, plenteous, plentiful, profuse, purple, rank, redundant, richly, saturated, Square, substantial, sumptuous, valuable, warm, wealthy, well off, well to do, well-off). (various references) | |
Russian | богатый (affluent, crummy, in the money, moneyed, opulent, pregnant, pursy, wealthy, well heeled, well-heeled). (various references) | |
Scottish | beartach (affluent, wealthy, well-off). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | smešan (amusing, comical, droll, funny, hilarious, laughable, ludicrous, ridicule, ridiculous), obilat (rife), mastan (fat, fatty, greasy, oleaginous, racy, risque, scabrous, sebaceous, unctuous), bogataš (dives), bogat (loaded, money: in the money, moneyed, opulent, wealthy, well to do). (various references) | |
Spanish | rico (affluent, costly, delicious, expansive, expensive, in the money, lovely, nice, tasty, tempting, wealthy). (various references) | |
Sranan | gudu (affluent, treasure, wealthy, well-off). (various references) | |
Swahili | tajiri (affluent, wealthy, well-off). (various references) | |
Swedish | rik (affluent, fertile, opulent, plenteous, plush, wealthy, well heeled, well off, well-off, wide), riklig (abudant, abundant, ample, bountiful, copious, full, generous, lavish, liberal, luxuriant, plenteous, right), fyllig (ample, buxom, detailed, full, full-bodied, full-flavored, full-flavoured, mellow, orotund, plump, well-rounded). (various references) | |
Tagalog | mayáman (affluent, wealthy, well-off). (various references) | |
Thai | เข้มข้น (รสชาติ, สี), อุดมสมบูรณ์ (exuberant, fecund), รวย, มีค่า. (various references) | |
Turkish | komik (amusing, burlesque, comedian, comic, comical, droll, farcical, funny, funnyman, gilbertian, humorous, jesting, jocose, laugh, laughable, laughing, ludicrous, quizzical, ridiculous, risible, rum, rummy), anlamlı (eloquent, expressive, meaning, meaningful, pointed, pregnant, purposeful, revealing, significant, significative), bereketli (abundant, copious, exuberant, fat, fecund, fertile, fruitful, generous, lush, luxuriant, opulent, overflowing, plenteous, plentiful, productive, rank), besin değeri yüksek (nutrient), besleyici (alimentary, feeder, nourishing, nutrient, nutritious, nutritive, substantial, sustaining, trophic), bol (abounding, abundant, affluent, ample, baggy, bounteous, bountiful, broad, claret cup, copious, effusive, exuberant, fecund, flush, full, generous, handsome, hearty, hefty, lavish, liberal, loose, lots of, lush, luxuriant, opulent, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, prodigal, profuse, rank, riotous, unsparing, unstinted, wealthy, wide), canlı (active, alive, animate, animated, beany, breezy, bright, brightly, brisk, bustling, colorful, colourful, Corky, crisp, crispy, dashing, dewy, driving, exhilarated, expressive, exuberant, feeling, fresh, full of beans, full of life, gay, genially, ginger, gingery, glowing, go-go, graphic, graphical, hearty, humming, in the flesh, inspired, life, live, lively, living, living being, living creature, lusty, mercurial, mettled, mettlesome, peppy, perky, picturesque, quick, racy, rousing, sappy, saturated, smart, snappy, spirited, sprightly, springy, swinging, vibrant, vital, vivacious, vivid, warm, with it, zippy), değerli (costly, dear, deserving, dignified, estimable, meritorious, precious, Valent, valuable, valued, well-beloved, worthy), ağır (arduous, back breaking, badly, bovine, burdensome, contemptuous, cumbersome, cumbrous, deep, deliberate, dignified, drudging, dull, fabian, foul, grave, grievous, hard, harsh, heavily, heavy, hefty, indigestible, languid, lazy, lumbering, massive, measured, muzzy, not fast, onerous, oppressive, plodding, ponderous, repressive, scorching, scornful, serious, serious minded, seriously, severe, severely, sharp, slack, slashing, slow, slow moving, slowly, sluggish, smashing, stodgy, strenuous, strong, swingeing, toilful, toilsome, unwholesome, unwieldy, weighty), gür (bushy, rank, rotund, stentorian, strong, tick), zengin (affluent, bonanza, fertile, generous, in the chips, in the money, moneyed, opulent, propertied, prosperous, wealthy, well heeled, well-endowed), nükteli (epigrammatic, humoristic, humorous, spicy, spirited, waggish, witty), pahada ağır, pahalı (costly, dear, expensive, high priced, precious, pricey, pricy, sumptuous), paralı (coin-op, coin-operated, flush, heeled, loaded, mercenary, moneyed, paid, paying, wealthy, well heeled), varlıklı (affluent, brownstone, propertied, wealthy, well off, well situated, well to do, well-endowed), verimli (abundant, bonanza, copious, effective, efficient, exuberant, fat, fecund, fertile, fruitful, generous, grateful, high speed, loamy, pregnant, procreant, procreative, producing, productive, prolific, rank, yielding), yoğun (busy, compact, concentrated, crash, dense, gross, hectic, intense, intensive, peasoupy, rush hour, stiff, thick, turbid), esprili (clever, facetious, humoristic, salty, spicy, spirited, spiritual, witty, wry). (various references) | |
Turkmen | baя. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | рясний (abundant, ample, copious, exuberant, fertile, lavish, opulent, plentiful, plenty, profuse, prolific, torrential), родючий (battle, benign, fecund, fertile, fruitful, generous, luxuriant, productive), цінний (costly, estimable, valuable, valued, wealthy), невичерпний (exhaustless, inexhaustible, unfailing, wasteless), багатий (abundant, affluent, ample, bounteous, copious, moneyed, oof-bird, oofy, opulent, pinguid, plenteous, plentiful, profuse, pursy, redundant, rife, superb, wealthy, well off). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tráng lệ (gorgeous, imperial, magnific, magnifical, magnificent, princely, splendent, splendid, superb), sum sê đẹp đẽ, phong phú (abounding, abundant, ample, a-plenty, copious, meaty, multifarious, opulent, plenteous, plentiful, productive, richly), ngon (dainty, dodge, full-bodied, succulent, toothsome), ngậy, lộng lẫy (gallant, gorgeous, lustrous, plush, princely, royally, sheeny, splendent, splendid), giàu có tốt, giàu (wealthy), dồi dào (affluent, a-plenty, copious, galore, plenteous, plentiful, profuse, unstinted), đắt tiền (costly). (various references) | |
Welsh | goludog (affluent, wealthy), cyfoethog (affluent, powerful, wealthy), bras (broad, coarse, fat, luxuriant), ariannog (moneyed, wealthy), aelaw (frequent, generous, wealth), abl (able, sufficient, well-off). (various references) | |
Yucatec | taak'inal (affluent, wealthy, well-off), ayik'al (affluent, wealthy, well-off). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | abundans, abundantem, abundantes, abundanti, abundantia, abundantibus, abundantiorem, abundantiori, abundantissime, abundantium, abundantius, altilia, altilium, beata, beatae, beatam, beati, beatior, beatissimam, beatius, beato, beatos, beatum, beatus, copia, copiosus, dis, ditem, ditiores, ditiori, ditus, dives, divitem, divites, diviti, divitibus, divitis, divitum, fortunati, fortunatus, insaturabilia, locuples, locuplete, locupletius, opulens, opulenta, opulentae, opulentam, opulentas, opulenti, opulentus, pecuniosus, pingue, pinguem, pingues, pingui, pinguia, pinguibus, pinguis, pinguissima, pinguissimae, pinguissimo, pinguissimum, pinguissimus, pinguium, plenus, prodigus, quaestuosus questuosus, uber, ubere, uberem, uberes, uberi, uberibus, uberrimae, uberrimis, uberrimus, uberum. (various references) |
| Avestan | 200-600 | raêvañt. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | plentiveus, richesse. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Proverbs Chapter 18, Verse 23 |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Cum obsecrationibus loquetur pauper et dives effabitur rigide |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | With obsecraciouns speketh the pore man; and a riche man shal speke out ruggidli. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | The poor useth intreaties; but the rich answereth roughly. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | The poor useth entreaties; but the rich answereth roughly. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | The poor man makes requests for grace, but the man of wealth gives a rough answer. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Proverbs Chapter 18, Verse 23 |
| Cebuano | ¶ Ang kabus magagamit sa mga pagpangaliyupo; Apan ang adunahan magatubag sa pagsingka. |
| Croatian | Ponizno moleæi govori siromah, a grubo odgovara bogataš. |
| Danish | Fattigmand beder og trygler, Rigmand svarer med hårde Ord. |
| Dutch | De arme spreekt smekingen; maar de rijke antwoordt harde dingen. |
| Finnish | Köyhä puhuu pyydellen, mutta rikas vastaa tylysti. |
| French | Le pauvre parle en suppliant, Et le riche répond avec dureté. |
| German | Ein Armer redet mit Flehen, ein Reicher antwortet stolz. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Orang miskin memohon dengan sopan; orang kaya menjawab dengan bentakan. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Bahwa orang miskin berkata dengan memohon-mohon, tetapi orang kaya menyahut dengan kasar. |
| Italian | Il povero parla con suppliche, il ricco risponde con durezza. |
| Korean | 가 난 한 자 는 간 절 한 말 로 구 하 여 도 부 자 는 엄 한 말 로 대 답 하 느 니 라 |
| Maori | ¶ He inoi ta te rawakore hanga; he taikaha ia te whakahoki a te tangata taonga. |
| Norwegian | I ydmyke bønner taler den fattige, men den rike svarer med hårde ord. |
| Portuguese | O pobre fala com rogos; mas o rico responde com durezas. |
| Rumanian | Sqracul vorbewte rugkndu-se, dar bogatul rqspunde cu asprime. - |
| Russian | у НПМШВПА ЗПЧПТЙФ ОЙЭЙК, Б ВПЗБФЩК ПФЧЕЮБЕФ ЗТХВП. |
| Spanish | El pobre habla con ruegos, pero el rico responde con dureza. |
| Swedish | Bönfallande är den fattiges tal, men den rike svarar med hårda ord. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "rich": richen, richened, richening, richens, richer, riches, richest, richly, richness, richnesses, richweed, richweeds. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "rich": eldrich, enrich, gastrotrich, ostrich, overrich, superrich, tovarich, ultrarich. (additional references) | |
Words containing "rich": agrichemical, agrichemicals, enriched, enricher, enrichers, enriches, enriching, enrichment, enrichments, gastrotrichs, ostriches, ostrichlike, perichondral, perichondria, perichondrium, peritrichous, peritrichously, sporotrichoses, sporotrichosis, tovariches, trichiases, trichiasis, trichina, trichinae, trichinal, trichinas, trichinize, trichinized, trichinizes, trichinizing, trichinoses, trichinosis, trichinous, trichite, trichites, trichlorfon, trichlorfons, trichloroethylene, trichloroethylenes, trichlorphon, trichlorphons, trichocyst, trichocysts, trichogyne, trichogynes, trichoid, trichologies, trichologist, trichologists, trichology, trichome. (additional references) | |
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"Rich" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aich, Arich, brich, driech, eric, Giech, ich, irch, Irh, kich, oroch, prich, rabh, racah, Rachh, Rachi, Raich, rauch, rch, rec, recb, rech, recht, reech, Rekha, riac, Riach, ribh, Ribhi, rica, ricah, Ricco, Richd, Richi, richo, richt, richy, rici, rics, rict, ricu, ricy, riech, Riehl, righ, rihk, rik, rika, rioh, riph, risch, rish, ritchs, rith, ritho, roch, ruch, ryc, ryche, ryk, tich, trich, vich. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "rich" (pronounced ri"kh) |
| 3 | r i" kh | enrich. |
| 2 | -i" kh | bewitch, bitch, ditch, Fitch, glitch, hitch, ich, itch, kitsch, lich, niche, pitch, snitch, Stich, stitch, switch, twitch, unhitch, which, wich, witch. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-h-i-r" | |
-1 letter: chi, hic, ich. | |
-2 letters: hi. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-h-i-r" | |
+1 letter: birch, chair, chirk, chirm, chiro, chirp, chirr, choir, ichor. | |
+2 letters: achier, archil, cahier, ceriph, chadri, chairs, chicer, chider, chimar, chimer, chiral, chirks, chirms, chiros, chirps, chirpy, chirre, chirrs, choirs, choric, chrism, cipher, cither, coheir, dreich, enrich, grinch, herdic, heroic, hydric, ichors, inarch, kirsch, orchid, orchil, orchis, orphic, rachis, rhodic, richen, richer, riches, richly, schrik, smirch, thoric, thrice, urchin. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Sounds 10. Quotations: Familiar 11. Quotations: Historic 12. Quotations: Fiction | 13. Quotations: Non-fiction 14. Quotations: Spoken 15. Quotations: Speeches 16. Usage Frequency | 17. Names: Frequency 18. Names: Derived from 19. Names: Company Usage 20. Expressions | 21. Expressions: Internet 22. Translations: Modern 23. Translations: Ancient 24. Bible Trace | 25. Abbreviations 26. Acronyms 27. Derivations 28. Rhymes | 29. Anagrams 30. Bibliography |
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