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richdom

/ˈɹɪt͡ʃdəm/

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Probably a calque of a similar formation in a continental West Germanic language, such as Dutch rijkdom (“wealth”) or German Reichtum (“wealth”); equivalent to rich + -dom.

Compare Middle English richedom (“wealth, riches”), Old English rīċedōm (“dominion”), Swedish rikedom (“wealth, richness”), and Icelandic ríkidómur (“riches, power”).

noun richdoms · rychedome

rare, uncountable, usually Wealth; riches; richness; prosperity. Free nature in her inexhaustible richdom of forms can never be fettered into the narrow bounds, which we may assign to any of our technic definitions.

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@misc{richdom_2026,
  title = {richdom},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/richdom},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}