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Princeton's WordNet

  1. comfortable, easy, prosperous, well-fixed, well-heeled, well-off, well-situated, well-to-doadjective

    in fortunate circumstances financially; moderately rich

    "they were comfortable or even wealthy by some standards"; "easy living"; "a prosperous family"; "his family is well-situated financially"; "well-to-do members of the community"

Wiktionary

  1. well-to-doadjective

    rich; prosperous

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  1. well-to-do

    Well-to-do refers to individuals or groups who are in a comfortable, prosperous, or affluent financial position; those who are wealthy or have substantial means.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of well-to-do in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of well-to-do in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of well-to-do in a Sentence

  1. The Post:

    His real name, according to friends and others familiar with his case, is Mohammed Emwazi, a Briton from a well-to-do family who grew up in West London and graduated from college with a degree in computer programming.

  2. John Duarte for Congress:

    We have the highest taxes in the country. They keep putting the socialist burden on well-to-do retirees, business owners and their just leading California left and right right now.

  3. Joe McDonald:

    Berkeley was middle class, lower middle class and working class, now, there's still a middle class, but in my neighborhood, there are homes going for $1, $2, $3 million dollars. You almost have to be well-to-do to live in Berkeley.

  4. Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul:

    If a white kid is caught with it, and they're from a well-to-do family, they get a good lawyer, and they don't go to jail.

  5. Mariana Fulger:

    Life – a sort of a plate of real-imaginary from which I nibble together with the birds of light and darkness, with the poor and well-to-do of the world at grains of to be once rough (like sharp stones), other times more like the pulp of pomegranates and ripe figs; stairs I have to climb in myself and climb down… to sometimes walk along the roads of infinity, other times, how many, to stop before the first step, waiting for the path home…


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