English

Noun

opulence ‎(countable and uncountable, plural opulences)

1. wealth
2. abundance, bounty, profusion

Quotations

• 1721, John Gay, A Panegyrical Epistle to Mr. Thomas Snow, Goldſmith, near Temple-Bar; Occaſion’d by his Buying and Selling the Third South-Sea Subſcriptions, taken in by the Directors at a Thouſand per Cent, published in 1733 in Miscellanies, volume 3, page 239:

  There in full Opulence a Banker dwelt,
  Who all the Joys and Pangs of Riches felt;
  His Side-board glitter’d with imagin’d Plate;
  And his proud Fancy held a vaſt Eſtate.

• C. J. Fox:

  The most meritorious persons have always … been removed from opulence.

Synonyms

• See also Wikisaurus:wealth

Translations

French

Noun

opulence f ‎(plural opulences)

1. opulence