RICHES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does riches mean? 

• RICHES (noun)
  The noun RICHES has 1 sense:

1. an abundance of material possessions and resources

  Familiarity information: RICHES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RICHES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An abundance of material possessions and resources

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

riches; wealth

Hypernyms ("riches" is a kind of...):

material resource (assets in the form of material possessions)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "riches"):

gold (great wealth)

hoarded wealth; treasure (accumulated wealth in the form of money or jewels etc.)

 Context examples 

Despite the potential riches of precious stones, HAT-P-7b is not a comfortable place to be.

(Exoplanet Could Have Clouds of Rubies, Sapphires, VOA)

“Well,” said they, “you are come back, and we will not sell you again for all the riches in the world.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Mrs. Smith has this morning exercised the privilege of riches upon a poor dependent cousin, by sending me on business to London.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

All the heaps of riches in the wureld would be nowt to me (if they was mine) to buy her back!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I learned that the possessions most esteemed by your fellow creatures were high and unsullied descent united with riches.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

To clear up which, I endeavoured to give some ideas of the desire of power and riches; of the terrible effects of lust, intemperance, malice, and envy.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

"Because if you care much about riches, you will never go and marry a poor man," said Jo, frowning at Laurie, who was mutely warning her to mind what she said.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

It might happen that, should he amass riches by some happy fortune of war, this feud might hold the two families aloof.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

As you decide, you shall be left as you were before, and neither richer nor wiser, unless the sense of service rendered to a man in mortal distress may be counted as a kind of riches of the soul.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Mere riches cannot do it.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)