rich
possessing material wealth
How often you will meet it
Rank 645 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 29,672 times across 155,370 chapters — 0.014% of every word in the library.
It belongs to the first 1,000 words, the band worth learning before any other.
What it means
adjective
- possessing material wealth her father is extremely richmany fond hopes are pinned on rich uncles
- having an abundant supply of desirable qualities or substances (especially natural resources) blessed with a land rich in mineralsrich in ideas
- of great worth or quality a rich collection of antiques
- marked by great fruitfulness also: fat, fertile, productive fertile farmlanda fat land
- strong; intense also: deep deep purplea rich red
- very productive rich seams of coal
rich in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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He hath filled the hungry with good things: and the rich he hath sent empty away.
The White Christmas and other Merry · Walter Ben Hare · Chapter 1
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Phaddhy, take care of yourself, you've got rich, now; but for all that, take care of yourself.
The Station · William Carleton · Chapter 1
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Hollows thereof lay rich in shade By voyagers old inviolate thrown Ere Paul Pry cruised with Pelf and Trade.
John Marr and Other Poems · Herman Melville · Chapter 1
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The rich would have spoken on the value of thrift, and the idle grown eloquent over the dignity of labour.
The Picture of Dorian Gray · Oscar Wilde · Chapter 1
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At the mouth of each creek the river made a great bend, and in the sweep of each were rich bottom lands.
The Heart of the Hills · John, Jr. Fox · Chapter 1