wealth

wealth
n
1. riches, means, wherewithal, assets, resources, reserves; funds, money, Sl. gelt, Sl. mazuma; monies, cash, capital; plenty, treasure, fortune, Sl. bread, Sl. dough, Sl. moolah, Sl. loot, Sl. gravy, Sl. bucks, Sl. big bucks, blue-chip stocks, gilt-edged securities or bonds; affluence, richness, prosperity, opulence, easy circumstances; nest egg, Sl. cushion, Sl. tidy bundle, nice sum.
2. abundance, heap, pile, mass, ton, great deal; profusion, bounty, plenitude, plenteousness, bountifulness, copiousness, amplitude; cornucopia, bottomless well, treasury, gold mine, mine.
3. fruitfulness, productivity, fertility, fecundity, pro-liferousness, fructiferousness.

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