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rich¹

  • /ˈɹɪt͡ʃ/
  • [ˈɹʷɪt͡ʃ]

Rhymes with -ɪtʃ

Where it comes from

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.

adjective richer · more rich · richest · most rich

  1. 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.[…]”
  2. Having an intense fatty or sugary flavour. a rich dish; rich cream or soup; rich pastry; a very rich chocolate cake
  3. Remunerative. All racists I grew up with have rich jobs.
  4. Plentiful, abounding, abundant, fulfilling. a rich treasury; a rich entertainment; a rich crop
  5. Yielding large returns; productive or fertile; fruitful. rich soil or land; a rich mine
  6. 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
  7. Not faint or delicate; vivid. a rich red colour
  8. informal Very amusing. The scene was a rich one.
  9. informal Ridiculous, absurd, outrageous, preposterous, especially in a galling, hypocritical, or brazen way. That's rich, coming from you.
  10. slang, uncommon Pornographic; titillating.
  11. 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.
  12. Of a solute-solvent solution: not weak (not diluted); of strong concentration. mixed up a batch that was quite rich
  13. Of a fuel-air mixture: having more fuel (thus less air) than is necessary to burn all of the fuel; less air- or oxygen- rich than necessary for a stoichiometric reaction.
  14. 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.

noun

  1. plural, plural only 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 i
  2. plural, plural only the second placer in Tycoon

verb riches · riching · riched

  1. obsolete, transitive To enrich. And than he shall be riched ſo, That it may faile nevermo
  2. intransitive, obsolete To become rich.

Rich²

  • /ɹɪt͡ʃ/

Where it comes from

From Richard. The surname also derives from rich as a nickname.

proper noun

  1. A diminutive of the male given name Richard.
  2. A surname transferred from the given name.
  3. A township in Cook County, Illinois.
  4. A township in Anderson County, Kansas.
  5. A township in Lapeer County, Michigan.
  6. An unincorporated community in Coahoma County, Mississippi.

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