opulence

From French opulence, from Latin opulentia.

opulence (countable and uncountable, plural opulences)

1. wealth
2. abundance, bounty, profusion
   • 1721, John Gay, A Panegyrical Epiſtle to Mr. Thomas Snow, Goldſmith, near Temple-Bar; Occaſion’d by his Buying and Selling the Third South-Sea Subſcriptions, taken in by the Directors at a Thouſand per Cent, published in 1733 in Miſcellanies, volume 3, page 239:

     There in full Opulence a Banker dwelt,
     Who all the Joys and Pangs of Riches felt;
     His Side-board glitter’d with imagin’d Plate;
     And his proud Fancy held a vaſt Eſtate.

   • C. J. Fox:

     The most meritorious persons have always … been removed from opulence.

• See also Thesaurus:wealth

opulence f (plural opulences)

1. opulence

• “opulence” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).