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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. an affluent person; a person who is financially well off;
- Example: "the so-called emerging affluents"

2. a branch that flows into the main stream;
[syn: feeder, tributary, confluent, affluent]


ADJECTIVE (1)

1. having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value;
- Example: "an affluent banker"
- Example: "a speculator flush with cash"
- Example: "not merely rich but loaded"
- Example: "moneyed aristocrats"
- Example: "wealthy corporations"
[syn: affluent, flush, loaded, moneyed, wealthy]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Affluent \Af"flu*ent\, a. [Cf. F. affluent, L. affluens, -entis,
   p. pr. See Affluence.]
   1. Flowing to; flowing abundantly. "Affluent blood."
      --Harvey.
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   2. Abundant; copious; plenteous; hence, wealthy; abounding in
      goods or riches.
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            Language . . . affluent in expression. --H. Reed.
      [1913 Webster]

            Loaded and blest with all the affluent store,
            Which human vows at smoking shrines implore.
                                                  --Prior.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Affluent \Af"flu*ent\, n.
   A stream or river flowing into a larger river or into a lake;
   a tributary stream.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

affluent
    adj 1: having an abundant supply of money or possessions of
           value; "an affluent banker"; "a speculator flush with
           cash"; "not merely rich but loaded"; "moneyed
           aristocrats"; "wealthy corporations" [syn: affluent,
           flush, loaded, moneyed, wealthy]
    n 1: an affluent person; a person who is financially well off;
         "the so-called emerging affluents"
    2: a branch that flows into the main stream [syn: feeder,
       tributary, confluent, affluent] [ant: distributary]


Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

118 Moby Thesaurus words for "affluent":
   abounding, abounding in riches, abundant, acquisitive,
   all-sufficing, ample, aplenty, big-rich, bottomless, bounteous,
   bountiful, comfortable, comfortably situated, confluent, copious,
   coursing, decurrent, defluent, diffluent, diffuse,
   disgustingly rich, easy, effuse, epidemic, exhaustless,
   extravagant, exuberant, fat, fertile, flowing, fluent, flush,
   fluxional, fluxive, frightfully rich, full, galore, generous,
   grasping, gulfy, gushing, in clover, in funds, in good case,
   in luxury, in plenty, in quantity, in the money, independent,
   independently rich, independently wealthy, inexhaustible, lavish,
   liberal, loaded, luxuriant, luxurious, made of money, many,
   maximal, mazy, meandering, moneyed, much, numerous, on Easy Street,
   on velvet, oofy, opulent, overflowing, plenitudinous, plenteous,
   plentiful, plenty, pouring, prevailing, prevalent, prodigal,
   productive, profluent, profuse, profusive, prosperous,
   provided for, racing, rampant, replete, rich, rich as Croesus,
   rife, riotous, rolling in money, running, running over, rushing,
   serpentine, sluggish, streaming, successful, superabundant,
   surging, surgy, teeming, tidal, vortical, wallowing in wealth,
   warm, wealthy, well provided for, well-fixed, well-found,
   well-furnished, well-heeled, well-off, well-provided, well-stocked,
   well-to-do, wholesale