opulence

From French opulence, from Latin opulentia.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɒp.jʊl.əns/

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• Rhymes: -ɒpjʊləns

opulence (countable and uncountable, plural opulences)

1. Wealth.
2. Abundance, bounty, profusion.
3. Ostentatious display of wealth and luxury; plushness.
   • 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”, in Miſcellanies, volume 3, published 1733, 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.

• See also Thesaurus:wealth

• opulent

Borrowed from Latin opulentia.

• IPA^(key): /ɔ.py.lɑ̃s/

opulence f (plural opulences)

1. opulence

• opulent

• “opulence”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.