AFFLUENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does affluent mean? 

• AFFLUENT (noun)
  The noun AFFLUENT has 2 senses:

1. an affluent person; a person who is financially well off

2. a branch that flows into the main stream

  Familiarity information: AFFLUENT used as a noun is rare.

• AFFLUENT (adjective)
  The adjective AFFLUENT has 1 sense:

1. having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value

  Familiarity information: AFFLUENT used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AFFLUENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An affluent person; a person who is financially well off

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Context example:

the so-called emerging affluents

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

have; rich person; wealthy person (a person who possesses great material wealth)

Derivation:

affluent (having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A branch that flows into the main stream

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

affluent; confluent; feeder; tributary

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

branch (a stream or river connected to a larger one)

• AFFLUENT (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value

Synonyms:

affluent; flush; loaded; moneyed; substantial; wealthy

Context example:

a substantial family

Similar:

rich (possessing material wealth)

Derivation:

affluence (abundant wealth)

affluent (an affluent person; a person who is financially well off)

 Context examples 

They were not, so far as I could judge, of any great value, nor did the bank-book show that Mr. Oldacre was in such very affluent circumstances.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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 Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There was a family of cousins within a walk of Uppercross, in less affluent circumstances, who depended on the Musgroves for all their pleasures: they would come at any time, and help play at anything, or dance anywhere; and Anne, very much preferring the office of musician to a more active post, played country dances to them by the hour together; a kindness which always recommended her musical powers to the notice of Mr and Mrs Musgrove more than anything else, and often drew this compliment;—"Well done, Miss Anne! very well done indeed!

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

She is a cold-hearted, vain woman, who has married entirely from convenience, and though evidently unhappy in her marriage, places her disappointment not to faults of judgment, or temper, or disproportion of age, but to her being, after all, less affluent than many of her acquaintance, especially than her sister, Lady Stornaway, and is the determined supporter of everything mercenary and ambitious, provided it be only mercenary and ambitious enough.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

His honest black face, and the immense view before us, which carried us half-way back to the affluent of the Amazon, helped us to remember that we really were upon this earth in the twentieth century, and had not by some magic been conveyed to some raw planet in its earliest and wildest state.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)