affluent

UK /ˈæf.lu.ənt/ US /ˈæf.lu.ənt/
adj 4noun 2

Definitions

noun

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.

adj

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

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