Sekirov Dictionary

affluent

/ˈæf.lu.ənt/

adjective 4
noun 2
forms 3

adjective4

•
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.
•
Abundant; copious; plenteous.
- The shores are affluent in beauty, and incomparably lovely is the drive to the heights of Castel-a-Mare. — 1860
(old-fashioned) Tributary.
(no longer used) Flowing to; flowing abundantly.

noun2

•
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
•
A stream or river flowing into a larger river or into a lake; a tributary stream; a tributary.
- 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

forms

affluents · more affluent · most affluent

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