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# wealth

«wealth» in Mova's school dictionary: **a large amount of money, property and things worth a lot…** — 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

noun (wealth — uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Wealth is a large amount of money, property and things worth a lot; being rich. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wealth/#m1)

2) A wealth of something is a large amount of it: a wealth of information, a wealth of ideas. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wealth/#m2)

3) Wealth can also mean a great amount of good things in life, such as blessings, not just money. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wealth/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In stories, kings and merchants have great wealth; in social studies and history, wealth is how rich a person or country is. In maths word problems in formal voice, wealth is the total value owned. Phrases: great wealth, a wealth of, share the wealth, health and wealth.

### examples

- The king had great wealth: gold, jewels and castles. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wealth/#x1)
- The library has a wealth of books about animals. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wealth/#x2)
- Some people believe health is more important than wealth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wealth/#x3)
- The merchant built his wealth by trading spices. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wealth/#x4)
- The country's wealth comes from its oil. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wealth/#x5)
- Grandad has a wealth of stories about the old days. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wealth/#x6)

### note

Uncountable: «much wealth», not «wealths». Adjective: wealthy (rich). «A wealth of» just means «lots of» — it is not about money. Opposite: poverty.

### In the corpora

- [The British Empire spread the English language and British laws, but it also took land and wealth and ruled people without their consent.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/37-britain-and-ireland-a-short-story/13/)
- [The rich fool built bigger barns to store his wealth, but died that night.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/15-parables-talents-sower-and-more/19/)
- [and thou say in thy heart: 'My power and the might of my hand hath gotten me this wealth.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.263/)
- [Of them that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.802/)
- [For he seeth that wise men die, the fool and the brutish together perish, and leave their wealth to others.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.806/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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