What does Riches mean?
Definitions for Riches
ˈrɪtʃ ɪzrich·es
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word Riches.
Princeton's WordNet
wealth, richesnoun
an abundance of material possessions and resources
Wiktionary
richesnoun
Money, goods, wealth, treasure.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Richesnoun
Etymology: richesses, Fr.
The instrumentalness of riches to charity has rendered it necessary by laws to secure propriety. Henry Hammond.
Chemists seek riches by transmutation and the great elixir. Thomas Sprat.
Riches do not consist in having more gold and silver, but in having more in proportion than our neighbours, whereby we are enabled to procure to ourselves a greater plenty of the conveniencies of life, than comes within their reach, who, sharing the gold and silver of the world in a less proportion, want the means of plenty and power, and so are poorer. John Locke.
What riches give us, let us first enquire,
Meat, fire, and cloaths; what more? meat, cloaths, and fire. Alexander Pope.The riches of heav’ns pavement, trodden gold. John Milton.
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riches
Riches refer to a large amount of money or valuable possessions, wealth, or material prosperity. It can also connote resources that hold great value or abundance, such as natural resources, intellectual wealth or personal talents.
Webster Dictionary
Richesadjective
that which makes one rich; an abundance of land, goods, money, or other property; wealth; opulence; affluence
Richesadjective
that which appears rich, sumptuous, precious, or the like
Wikidata
Riches
Riches is a limited edition compilation album that was temporarily included with the Raintown album by the Scottish rock band Deacon Blue, starting in February 1988. Only 20,000 copies were made. It contains the two bonus tracks that were included on the CD version of Raintown, plus selected tracks and B-sides from the following single releases: ⁕"Dignity" ⁕"Loaded" ⁕"When Will You" ⁕"Dignity"
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Riches
rich′ez, n.pl. (in B. sometimes n.sing.) wealth: richness: abundance: an intellectual treasure, as the riches of wisdom: the pearl, flower, or cream of anything. [M. E. richesse (n.sing.)—O. Fr. richesse—Mid. High Ger. ríche.]
Surnames Frequency by Census Records
RICHES
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Riches is ranked #25171 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Riches surname appeared 985 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Riches.
94.9% or 935 total occurrences were White.
2% or 20 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
1.9% or 19 total occurrences were of two or more races.
0.5% or 5 total occurrences were Asian.
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Riches in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Riches in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8
Examples of Riches in a Sentence
There is nothing keeps longer than a middling fortune, and nothing melts away sooner than a great one. Poverty treads upon the heels of great and unexpected riches.
We need a perfect balance between economic development and the protection of the our natural riches, which are the greatest wealth we Albanians have.
To be content with what one has is the greatest and truest of riches.
I believe Socialism is the grandest theory ever presented, and I am sure it will someday rule the world. Then we will have attained the Millennium... Then men will be content to work for the general welfare and share their riches with their neighbors.
You can follow the trend, or you can set the trend, you set the trend by having a barometer of what young folks are doing, and the conditions of life they’re living. We would take stuff that was scraps and turn them into luxury. It wasn’t rags to riches. We turned our rags into things that rich people wanted. It’s like, ‘Oh, this is what I got? That motherfucker’s gonna want this because of how I rock it and how confident I am with it.’.
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