rich
noun
- having a lot of money and possessions
adjective
- having considerable wealth
- high in sugar and/or fat (foods)
- having considerable abundance (e.g., money, natural resources, possessions, qualities, etc.)
- sensorilly intense (as of color of flavor, etc)
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈɹɪt͡ʃ/ / [ˈɹʷɪt͡ʃ] / /ɹɪt͡ʃ/
adj
Etymology: From Middle English riche (“strong, powerful, rich”), from Old English rīċe (“powerful, mighty, great, high-ranking, rich, wealthy, strong, potent”), from Proto-West Germanic *rīkī (“powerful, rich”), from Proto-Germanic *rīkijaz (“kingly, powerful, rich”), from Proto-Germanic *rīks (“king, ruler”), an early borrowing from Proto-Celtic *rīxs, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs. Reinforced by Old French riche, from the same West Germanic source. Cognate with Dutch rijk, German reich, Danish rig, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish rik, Faroese and Icelandic ríkur, Portuguese and Spanish rico, French riche, Italian ricco.
- Wealthy: having a lot of money and possessions.
““A very welcome, kind, useful present, that means to the parish. By the way, Hopkins, let this go no further. We don't want the tale running round that a rich person has arrived. Churchill, my dear fellow, we have such greedy sharks, and wolves in lamb's clothing.[…]””
“In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. The welfare state is dismantled. […]”
- Having an intense fatty or sugary flavour.
“a rich dish; rich cream or soup; rich pastry”
“It is the richest food I have ever eaten, and for this reason I soon learned to partake of it sparingly.”
- Remunerative.
“All racists I grew up with have rich jobs.”
- Plentiful, abounding, abundant, fulfilling.
“a rich treasury; a rich entertainment; a rich crop”
“rich in fiber; rich in traditions”
- Yielding large returns; productive or fertile; fruitful.
“rich soil or land; a rich mine”
- Composed of valuable or costly materials or ingredients; procured at great outlay; highly valued; precious; sumptuous; costly.
“a rich endowment; a rich dress; rich silk or fur; rich presents”
“rich and various gems”
- Not faint or delicate; vivid.
“a rich red colour”
- Very amusing.
“The scene was a rich one.”
“a rich incident or character”
- Ridiculous, absurd, outrageous, preposterous, especially in a galling, hypocritical, or brazen way.
“That's rich, coming from you.”
“Now, if money be a marketable commodity like flour, as the Witness states, is it not rather a rich idea that of selling the use of a barrel of flour instead of the barrel of flour itself?”
- Pornographic; titillating.
- Elaborate, having complex formatting, multimedia, or depth of interaction.
“A skilled multimedia developer will have no problems adding interactive video and audio into existing rich media web pages.”
“Some rich text email messages contain formatting information that's best viewed with Microsoft Word.”
- Of a solute-solvent solution: not weak (not diluted); of strong concentration.
“mixed up a batch that was quite rich”
- Of a solute-solvent solution: not weak (not diluted); of strong concentration.
- Trading at a price level which is high relative to historical trends, a similar asset, or (for derivatives) a theoretical value.
“The ETF is trading rich to NAV right now; we can arb this by selling the ETF and buying the underlying constituents.”
name
Etymology: From Richard. The surname also derives from rich as a nickname.
- A diminutive of the male given name Richard.
- A surname transferred from the given name.
- A place in the United States:
- A place in the United States:
- A place in the United States:
- A place in the United States:
noun
Etymology: From Middle English riche (“strong, powerful, rich”), from Old English rīċe (“powerful, mighty, great, high-ranking, rich, wealthy, strong, potent”), from Proto-West Germanic *rīkī (“powerful, rich”), from Proto-Germanic *rīkijaz (“kingly, powerful, rich”), from Proto-Germanic *rīks (“king, ruler”), an early borrowing from Proto-Celtic *rīxs, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs. Reinforced by Old French riche, from the same West Germanic source. Cognate with Dutch rijk, German reich, Danish rig, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish rik, Faroese and Icelandic ríkur, Portuguese and Spanish rico, French riche, Italian ricco.
- The rich people of a society or the world collectively, the rich class of a society.
“Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand. They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are...”
“...if he lived he would never write about her, he knew that now. Nor about any of them. The rich were dull and they drank too much, or they played too much backgammon. They were dull and they were repetitious. He remembered poor Scott Fitzgerald and his romantic awe of them and how he had started a story once that began, "The rich are different from you and me." And how some one had said to Scott, Yes, they have more money. But that was not humorous to Scott. He thought they were a special glamourous race and when he found they weren't it wrecked him just as much as any other thing that wrecked him.”
- the second placer in Tycoon
verb
Etymology: From Middle English riche (“strong, powerful, rich”), from Old English rīċe (“powerful, mighty, great, high-ranking, rich, wealthy, strong, potent”), from Proto-West Germanic *rīkī (“powerful, rich”), from Proto-Germanic *rīkijaz (“kingly, powerful, rich”), from Proto-Germanic *rīks (“king, ruler”), an early borrowing from Proto-Celtic *rīxs, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs. Reinforced by Old French riche, from the same West Germanic source. Cognate with Dutch rijk, German reich, Danish rig, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish rik, Faroese and Icelandic ríkur, Portuguese and Spanish rico, French riche, Italian ricco.
- To enrich.
“And than he shall be riched ſo, That it may faile nevermo”
“With shadowy forests and with champains rich'd”
- To become rich.