affluent

[Af·flu*ent]

You know you're driving through an affluent neighborhood when you see large houses, perfect landscaping, and expensive cars. Use affluent to describe wealthy people or areas.

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Flowing to; flowing abundantly.

Noun
a branch that flows into the main stream

Noun
an affluent person; a person who is financially well off; "the so-called emerging affluents"

Adjective S.
having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value; "an affluent banker"; "a speculator flush with cash"; "not merely rich but loaded"; "moneyed aristocrats"; "wealthy corporations"


a.
Flowing to; flowing abundantly.

a.
Abundant; copious; plenteous; hence, wealthy; abounding in goods or riches.

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


Affluent

Af"flu*ent , a. [Cf. F. affluent, L. affluens, -entis, p. pr. See Affluence.] 1. Flowing to; flowing abundantly. "Affluent blood." Harvey. 2. Abundant; copious; plenteous; hence, wealthy; abounding in goods or riches.
Language . . . affluent in expression.
Loaded and blest with all the affluent store, Which human vows at smoking shrines implore.

Affluent

Af"flu*ent, n. A stream or river flowing into a larger river or into a lake; a tributary stream.

Flowing to; flowing abundantly.

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

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Usage Examples

Without in any way minimising the economic and psychological blow that people experience when they lose their jobs, the unemployed in affluent countries still have a safety net, in the form of social security payments, and usually free healthcare and free education for their children. They also have sanitation and safe drinking water.

As long as acquiring knowledge is the educational goal of schools, educational opportunities will be limited, as they are now, to affluent families.

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Other Usage Examples

But you know, if you live an affluent lifestyle, there are all types of trappings that are there that you have to be cognizant of, and you've got to try and communicate freely and gain understanding about and then keep moving on, because you know, sometimes lifestyles are chosen for us as opposed to us choosing them.

Unfortunately, our affluent society has also been an effluent society.

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