What does riches mean?

Definitions for riches
ˈrɪtʃ ɪzrich·es

This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word riches.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. wealth, richesnoun

    an abundance of material possessions and resources

Wiktionary

  1. richesnoun

    Money, goods, wealth, treasure.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Richesnoun

    Etymology: richesses, Fr.

    The instrumentalness of riches to charity has rendered it necessary by laws to secure propriety. Henry Hammond.

    Chemists seek riches by transmutation and the great elixir. Thomas Sprat.

    Riches do not consist in having more gold and silver, but in having more in proportion than our neighbours, whereby we are enabled to procure to ourselves a greater plenty of the conveniencies of life, than comes within their reach, who, sharing the gold and silver of the world in a less proportion, want the means of plenty and power, and so are poorer. John Locke.

    What riches give us, let us first enquire,
    Meat, fire, and cloaths; what more? meat, cloaths, and fire. Alexander Pope.

    The riches of heav’ns pavement, trodden gold. John Milton.

ChatGPT

  1. riches

    Riches refer to a large amount of money or valuable possessions, wealth, or material prosperity. It can also connote resources that hold great value or abundance, such as natural resources, intellectual wealth or personal talents.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Richesadjective

    that which makes one rich; an abundance of land, goods, money, or other property; wealth; opulence; affluence

  2. Richesadjective

    that which appears rich, sumptuous, precious, or the like

Wikidata

  1. Riches

    Riches is a limited edition compilation album that was temporarily included with the Raintown album by the Scottish rock band Deacon Blue, starting in February 1988. Only 20,000 copies were made. It contains the two bonus tracks that were included on the CD version of Raintown, plus selected tracks and B-sides from the following single releases: ⁕"Dignity" ⁕"Loaded" ⁕"When Will You" ⁕"Dignity"

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Riches

    rich′ez, n.pl. (in B. sometimes n.sing.) wealth: richness: abundance: an intellectual treasure, as the riches of wisdom: the pearl, flower, or cream of anything. [M. E. richesse (n.sing.)—O. Fr. richesse—Mid. High Ger. ríche.]

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. RICHES

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Riches is ranked #25171 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Riches surname appeared 985 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Riches.

    94.9% or 935 total occurrences were White.
    2% or 20 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    1.9% or 19 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    0.5% or 5 total occurrences were Asian.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of riches in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of riches in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of riches in a Sentence

  1. Rainer Maria Rilke:

    If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.

  2. Dr. Dale E. Turner:

    Why is it that, as we grow older, we are so relunctant to change It is not so much that new ideas are painful, for they are not. It is that old ideas are seldom entirely false, but have truth, great truth in them. The justification for conservatism is the desire to preserve the truths and standards of the past its dangers, of which we are seldom aware, is that in preserving those values, we may miss the infinitely greater riches that lie in the future.

  3. Akhenaten:

    labor not after riches first, and think thou afterwards wilt enjoy them. He who neglecteth the present moment, throweth away all that he hath. As the arrow passeth through the heart, while the warrior knew not that it was

  4. The Hitopadesa:

    By the fall of water-drops the pot is filled: such is the increase of riches, of knowledge, and of virtue.

  5. Menander:

    When you see a man elated with pride, glorying in his riches and high descent, rising even above fortune, look out for his speedy punishment; for he is only raised the higher that he may fall with a heavier crash.

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