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Definition of Affluent

1. Noun. An affluent person; a person who is financially well off. "The so-called emerging affluents"

2. Adjective. Having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value. "Wealthy corporations"

3. Noun. A branch that flows into the main stream.

Definition of Affluent

1. a. Flowing to; flowing abundantly.

2. n. A stream or river flowing into a larger river or into a lake; a tributary stream.

Definition of Affluent

1. Noun. Somebody who is wealthy. ¹

2. Noun. A stream or river flowing into a larger river or into a lake; a tributary stream; a tributary. ¹

3. Adjective. Abundant; copious; plenteous. ¹

4. Adjective. (context: by extension) Abounding in goods or riches; materially wealthy. ¹

5. Adjective. (dated) tributary ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Affluent

1. a stream that flows into another [n -S]

Medical Definition of Affluent

1. 1. Flowing to; flowing abundantly. "Affluent blood." 2. Abundant; copious; plenteous; hence, wealthy; abounding in goods or riches. "Language . . . Affluent in expression." (H. Reed) "Loaded and blest with all the affluent store, Which human vows at smoking shrines implore." (Prior) Origin: Cf. F. Affluent, L. Affluens, -entis, p. Pr. See Affluence. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Affluent

afflicter afflicters afflictest afflicteth afflicting affliction afflictionless afflictions afflictive afflictively

afflicts affluence affluences affluencies affluency affluent (current term) affluential affluentials affluently affluentness

affluents affluenza afflux affluxes affluxion affluxions affoard affoarded affoarding affoards

Literary usage of Affluent

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Descriptive Dictionary of British Malaya by Nicholas Belfield Dennys (1894)
"Petty W. affluent of E. Pulei near its mouth, SW Johore. ... Small W. affluent of the Kinta E., C. Perak, which it meets about 6 miles below Kinta V. Sungei ..."

2. Herodotus by Herodotus (1828)
"The family from this circumstance became exceedingly affluent, and Alcm:con was thus enabled to procure and maintain those horses which obtained him the ..."

3. Travels in South America: From the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean by Paul Marcoy (1875)
"R. of the PURUS (affluent on the right). — Purus-Purus, Muras, Abacaxis, ... inhabit, on the banks of that affluent of the Amazon, the Peruvian villages of ..."

4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1890)
"... of the main channel of the St. Lawrence is always considerably lower than that of the waters nearer shore, or of the harbors or the affluent streams. ..."

5. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1902)
"THE CAURA affluent OF THE ORINOCO. By E. ANDRÉ. PART I.—THE CAUR.A. IT was in September, 1897, that I paid my first visit to the Caura. ..."

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