richdom
/ˈɹɪt͡ʃdəm/
richdom noun: wealth; riches; richness; prosperity.
Noun
richdom (usually uncountable, plural richdoms)
- 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.1879, Ferdinand von Mueller, The native plants of Victoria, succinctly defined
- [...] and therefore still more approaches in its richdom of tan-principle to the genuine Sumach-leaves of Rhus coriaria.1888, Royal Society of New South Wales, Journal and proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales
Examples of richdom in a sentence
- Taking into consideration the taming of all creative richdoms of ideas on the basis of our graphic guidelines, we graphic specialists still have enough freedom to sensibly handle all design tasks.1984, Wolfgang Schmittel, corporate design international:
- According to Werner Sombart, the bourgeois was a challenger of the nobility and used the accumulation of richdom to get access to the oligarchy of the different courts in Europe.2006, José María Magone, The new world architecture:
Forms of richdom
| plural | richdoms |
|---|---|
| alternative form (obsolete) | rychedome |
Origin of richdom
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”).
Questions about richdom
- What does richdom mean?
- Richdom means wealth; riches; richness; prosperity.
- How do you use richdom in a sentence?
- Taking into consideration the taming of all creative richdoms of ideas on the basis of our graphic guidelines, we graphic specialists still have enough freedom to sensibly handle all design tasks.
- What part of speech is richdom?
- Richdom is a noun.
- How do you pronounce richdom?
- Richdom is pronounced /ˈɹɪt͡ʃdəm/.
- What is the plural of richdom?
- The plural of richdom is richdoms.
Words near richdom in the dictionary
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