affluent
/ˈæf.lu.ənt/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.37 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The affluents are most similar to the professional want-it-alls in their reasons for preferring specific hospitals and in their demographic characteristics."
- "It [Central Asia] is separated from the river-system of the Aral and Caspian Seas, […] from the affluents of the Indus and Ganges, on the south, by the chain of the Küen-lün, the rival of the Himalayas, […]"
- "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."
- "The affluents of the Amazon are, half of them, of this nature, while the other half are whitish and opaque, the difference depending upon the class of country through which they have flowed."
- "The shores are affluent in beauty, and incomparably lovely is the drive to the heights of Castel-a-Mare."
- "They were affluent, but aspired to true wealth."
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French affluent, borrowed in turn from Latin affluentem, accusative singular of affluēns, present active participle of affluō (“flow to or towards; overflow with”), from ad (“to, towards”) + fluō (“flow”) (cognate via latter to fluid, flow). Sense of “wealthy” (plentiful flow of goods) c. 1600, which also led to nominalization affluence. By surface analysis, af- + fluent.
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: affluentem
Usage
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Derived Forms
Phrases
emerging affluent
mass affluent