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# rich

«rich» in Mova's school dictionary: **A rich person has a lot of money or valuable things** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (rich, richer, richest); noun (the rich)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A rich person has a lot of money or valuable things. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rich/#m1)

2) Rich means having a lot of something good, like «rich in vitamins» or «a rich history». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rich/#m2)

3) Rich food has a lot of butter, cream, sugar or fat and fills you up quickly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rich/#m3)

4) Rich soil is good for growing plants. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rich/#m4)

5) A rich colour or sound is deep and strong. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rich/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

In stories rich characters may be kind or greedy; in money lessons it means wealthy. In science and food lessons «rich in» means containing a lot of (iron-rich, protein-rich). Phrases: «get rich», «rich and famous», «rich in», «the rich and the poor».

### examples

- The rich man lived in a huge house. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rich/#x1)
- Oranges are rich in vitamin C. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rich/#x2)
- This chocolate cake is very rich. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rich/#x3)
- The farm has rich, dark soil. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rich/#x4)
- Some people want to get rich quickly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rich/#x5)
- The singer had a rich, deep voice. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rich/#x6)
- The museum shows the town's rich history. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rich/#x7)
- Robin Hood took from the rich and gave to the poor. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rich/#x8)
- But yet I grew not rich. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rich/#x9)

### note

Opposite: poor. «The rich» means rich people as a group. Trap: «get rich quick» offers are usually scams. Rich does not mean happy or good; and «rich in» is about amount, not money (a country rich in forests).

### In the corpora

- [Sam, Mia, Jake, Lily, Connor, Chloe and Maddie were characters, and real people are richer than any story.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/30-who-you-are-what-you-will-do/11/)
- [Red blood cells carry oxygen using iron-rich haemoglobin, white cells fight germs, and platelets help stop bleeding.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/65-the-heart-and-blood/9/)
- [Pets need proper food made for their kind; rich human food, like a cat eating lasagne, can make them ill.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/225-caring-for-a-pet-needs-dangers-and-responsibility/7/)
- [Real bears and honey badgers raid bee nests and eat the protein-rich grubs as well as the honey.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/239-bees-the-waggle-dance-the-hive-and-honey/9/)
- [Bird droppings piled up for centuries on islands were once mined as a rich fertiliser.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/398-poo-wee-and-smells-rabbits-that-eat-their-droppings-dung-beetles-and-the-smelliest-animals/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «rich» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rich/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.