affluent
/ˈæf.lu.ənt/
affluent noun: someone who is wealthy.
Noun
affluent (plural affluents)
- Someone who is wealthy.
- The affluents are most similar to the professional want-it-alls in their reasons for preferring specific hospitals and in their demographic characteristics.1994, Philip D. Cooper, Health care marketing: a foundation for managed quality, page 183
- Synonyms:
- capitalist, fat cat, HNWI, moneybags, rich person
- A stream or river flowing into a larger river or into a lake; a tributary stream; a tributary.
- It [Central Asia] is separated from the river-system of the Aral and Caspian Seas, […] from the affluents of the Indus and Ganges, on the south, by the chain of the Küen-lün, the rival of the Himalayas, […]1874, Bayard Taylor, compiler, “The Countries of Central Asia”, in Central Asia. Travels in Cashmere, Little Tibet, and Central Asia (Illustrated Library of Travel, Exploration, and Adventure), New...
- Its sources are everywhere in pine-clad mountains and plateaus, but all of the affluents quickly descend into the desert valley below, through which the Gila winds its way westward to the Colorado.1895, J[ohn] W[esley] Powell, chapter I, in Canyons of the Colorado, Meadville, PA: Flood & Vincent; republished as The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons, New York: Dover, 1961...
- Synonyms:
- influent
Adjective
affluent (comparative more affluent, superlative most affluent)
- Abundant; copious; plenteous.
- The shores are affluent in beauty, and incomparably lovely is the drive to the heights of Castel-a-Mare.1860, Mary Howitt, transl., Life in the Old World
- Abounding in goods or riches; having a moderate level of material wealth.
- They were affluent, but aspired to true wealth.
- The Upper East Side is an affluent neighborhood in New York City.
- Tributary.
- Flowing to; flowing abundantly.
- affluent blood1672, Gideon Harvey, Morbus Anglicus, Or, The Anatomy of Consumptions
affluent meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
affluent in Hindi
- affluent, opulent, moneyed
- धनी dhanī
- affluent, wealthy
- समृद्ध samŕddh
affluent in Tamil
- வசதிபடைத்தவர், கிளையாறு, துணைநதி, வரவுகால், துணையாறு, வளமான
affluent in Marathi
- affluent, wealthy, opulent, well-off
- धनाढ्य dhanāḍhya
- affluent, opulent, prosperous, well-off
- तालेवार tālevār
- affluent, rich, moneyed
- धनी dhanī
affluent in Urdu
- بہتا ہوا, رواں
More languagesFewer languages
- affluent in Malayalam
- ഉപനദി, പോഷകനദി, ധനാഢ്യമായ, സമ്പത്തുള്ള
- affluent in Kannada
- ಸಂಪನ್ನ, ಶ್ರೀಮಂತ, ಪುಷ್ಕಳ, ಸಮೃದ್ಧ
- affluent in Pashto
- بډایه buḍā́ya
- affluent in Indonesian
- berkecukupan
Examples of affluent in a sentence
- The affluents of the Amazon are, half of them, of this nature, while the other half are whitish and opaque, the difference depending upon the class of country through which they have flowed.1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
- One reason, the department suggested, was that affluent New Yorkers were likely to eat expensive fish high in mercury, like swordfish and tuna.2008 January 30, Nick Fox, “Taking Worry Off the Plate”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 05 May 2021:
Synonyms of affluent
- capitalist
- fat cat
- HNWI
- moneybags
- rich person
- influent
Antonyms
Forms of affluent
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | affluents |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more affluent |
| superlative | most affluent |
Origin of affluent
Borrowed from Middle French affluent, borrowed in turn from Latin affluentem, accusative singular of affluēns, present active participle of affluō (“flow to or towards; overflow with”), from ad (“to, towards”) + fluō (“flow”) (cognate via latter to fluid, flow). Sense of “wealthy” (plentiful flow of goods) c. 1600, which also led to nominalization affluence. By surface analysis, af- + fluent.
Words formed from affluent
- affluence
- affluential
- affluently
- affluentness
- bioaffluent
- emerging affluent
- mass affluent
- nonaffluent
- subaffluent
- superaffluent
- unaffluent
Questions about affluent
- What does affluent mean?
- Affluent means someone who is wealthy.
- What is affluent in Hindi?
- Affluent in Hindi is धनी (dhanī), समृद्ध (samŕddh). See Affluent meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use affluent in a sentence?
- The affluents of the Amazon are, half of them, of this nature, while the other half are whitish and opaque, the difference depending upon the class of country through which they have flowed.
- What part of speech is affluent?
- Affluent can be a noun or an adjective.
- How do you pronounce affluent?
- Affluent is pronounced /ˈæf.lu.ənt/.
- What is the plural of affluent?
- The plural of affluent is affluents.
Words near affluent in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: affluent (page history and authors); धनी (Hindi) (page history and authors); affluent (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); तालेवार (Marathi) (page history and authors); affluent (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); affluent (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); affluent (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); بډایه (Pashto) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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