Wealth vs. Riches — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Wealth and Riches
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Wealth
Wealth is the abundance of valuable financial assets or physical possessions which can be converted into a form that can be used for transactions. This includes the core meaning as held in the originating old English word weal, which is from an Indo-European word stem.
Riches
Money, goods, wealth, treasure.
Wealth
An abundance of valuable material possessions or resources; riches
Gave his wealth away to charity.
Riches
(figurative) An abundance of anything desirable.
Wealth
The state of being rich; affluence
A community of great wealth.
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Riches
That which makes one rich; an abundance of land, goods, money, or other property; wealth; opulence; affluence.
Riches do not consist in having more gold and silver, but in having more in proportion, than our neighbors.
Wealth
Goods and resources having value in terms of exchange or use
The agricultural wealth of the region.
Riches
That which appears rich, sumptuous, precious, or the like.
The riche of heaven's pavement, trodden gold.
Against the richesses of this world shall they have misease of poverty.
In one hour so great riches is come to nought.
And for that riches where is my deserving?
Wealth
A great amount; a profusion
A wealth of advice.
Riches
An abundance of material possessions and resources
Wealth
Riches; a great amount of valuable assets or material possessions.
Wealth
(countable) A great amount; an abundance or plenty.
She brings a wealth of knowledge to the project.
Wealth
Prosperity; well-being; happiness.
Wealth
Weal; welfare; prosperity; good.
Wealth
Large possessions; a comparative abundance of things which are objects of human desire; esp., abundance of worldly estate; affluence; opulence; riches.
I have little wealth to lose.
Each day new wealth, without their care, provides.
Wealth comprises all articles of value and nothing else.
Wealth
In the private sense, all pooperty which has a money value.
Wealth
The state of being rich and affluent; having a plentiful supply of material goods and money;
Great wealth is not a sign of great intelligence
Wealth
The quality of profuse abundance;
She has a wealth of talent
Wealth
An abundance of material possessions and resources
Wealth
Property that has economic utility: a monetary value or an exchange value
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