rich
Wealthy: having a lot of money and possessions.
Adjective 4 meanings
Wealthy: having a lot of money and possessions.
Having an intense fatty or sugary flavour.
“a rich dish; rich cream or soup; rich pastry; a very rich chocolate cake”
Remunerative.
Plentiful, abounding, abundant, fulfilling.
“a rich treasury; a rich entertainment; a rich crop”
Noun 2 meanings
The rich people of a society or the world collectively, the rich class of a society.
“When the poor have no more to eat, they will eat the rich.”
the second placer in Tycoon
Etymology
From Middle English riche (“strong, powerful, rich”), from Old English rīċe (“powerful, mighty, great, high-ranking, rich, wealthy, strong, potent”), from Proto-West Germanic *rīkī (“powerful, rich”), from Proto-Germanic *rīkijaz (“kingly, powerful, rich”), from Proto-Germanic *rīks (“king, ruler”), an early borrowing from Proto-Celtic *rīxs, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs.
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RICH at a glance
RICH has 4 letters and scores 9 points in Scrabble (R 1 + I 1 + C 3 + H 4) and 9 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #1,278 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with rich
All rhymes- WHICH16
- SANDWICH17
- MICH11
- ENRICH11
- OSTRICH12
- WICH12
- SICH9
- LICH9
- DICH10
- STICH10
- TICH9
- LAICH10
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