riches
see also: Riches
Pronunciation
Riches
Etymology
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see also: Riches
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ɹɪt͡ʃɪz/
From Middle English richesse, plural of riche ("power, wealth"), from Old English rīċe.
Nounriches (plural p)
- Money, goods, wealth, treasure.
- 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act III, scene ii], page 12 ↗:
- Cal. […] Sometimes a thouſand twangling Inſtruments
Will hum about mine eares ; and ſometime voices,
That if I then had wak'd after long ſleepe,
Will make me ſleepe againe, and then in dreaming,
The clouds methought would open, and ſhew riches
Ready to drop vpon me, that when I wak'd
I cri'de to dreame againe.
- (figurative) An abundance of anything desirable.
- You will enjoy the riches of this forest.
- See also Thesaurus:wealth
- German: Reichtümer
- Russian: бога́тство
- Spanish: riqueza
From rich + -es by analogy with poors.
Nounriches (plural p)
Riches
Etymology
From Rich, a diminutive of Richard + the patronymic suffix -s.
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