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Vinony

affluent

noun

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adjective

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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈæf.lu.ənt/ / /ˈæfluːənt/ / /æˈfluːənt/

adj

Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French affluent, borrowed in turn from Latin affluentem, accusative singular of affluēns, present active participle of affluō (“flow to or towards; overflow with”), from ad (“to, towards”) + fluō (“flow”) (cognate via latter to fluid, flow). Sense of “wealthy” (plentiful flow of goods) c. 1600, which also led to nominalization affluence. By surface analysis, af- + fluent.

  1. Abundant; copious; plenteous.

    “The shores are affluent in beauty, and incomparably lovely is the drive to the heights of Castel-a-Mare.”

  2. Abounding in goods or riches; having a moderate level of material wealth.

    “They were affluent, but aspired to true wealth.”

    “The Upper East Side is an affluent neighborhood in New York City.”

  3. Tributary.
  4. Flowing to; flowing abundantly.

    “affluent blood”

noun

Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French affluent, borrowed in turn from Latin affluentem, accusative singular of affluēns, present active participle of affluō (“flow to or towards; overflow with”), from ad (“to, towards”) + fluō (“flow”) (cognate via latter to fluid, flow). Sense of “wealthy” (plentiful flow of goods) c. 1600, which also led to nominalization affluence. By surface analysis, af- + fluent.

  1. Someone who is wealthy.

    “The affluents are most similar to the professional want-it-alls in their reasons for preferring specific hospitals and in their demographic characteristics.”

  2. A stream or river flowing into a larger river or into a lake; a tributary stream; a tributary.

    “It [Central Asia] is separated from the river-system of the Aral and Caspian Seas, […] from the affluents of the Indus and Ganges, on the south, by the chain of the Küen-lün, the rival of the Himalayas, […]”

    “Its sources are everywhere in pine-clad mountains and plateaus, but all of the affluents quickly descend into the desert valley below, through which the Gila winds its way westward to the Colorado.”