wealth
n. uncountablen. a large amount of money, property, or valuable things that a person or country owns. It can also mean having a lot of something useful, like knowledge.
n. an abundance of valuable possessions or money; the state of being rich. In a broader sense, it refers to a plentiful supply of a particular desirable thing.
The family used their wealth to build a new hospital.
The country's wealth comes primarily from its vast reserves of natural gas and oil.
The library offers a wealth of information for researchers interested in the social history of the Victorian era.
Inherited from Middle English welth, welthe (“happiness, prosperity”), from Old English welþ, welþu, from Proto-West Germanic waliþu (“wealth”). Alternatively, possibly an alteration (due to similar words in -th: compare helth (“health”), derth (“dearth”)) of wele (“wealth, well-being, weal”), from Old English wela (“wealth, prosperity”), from Proto-Germanic walô (“well-being, prosperity”), from Proto-Indo-European *wel- (“good, best”); equivalent to weal + -th (abstract nominal suffix). Cognate with Dutch weelde (“wealth”), Low German weelde (“wealth”), Old High German welida, welitha (“wealth”). Related also to German Wohl (“welfare, well-being, weal”), Danish vel (“weal, welfare”), Swedish väl (“well-being, weal”). More at weal, well.
Primarily uncountable; when used to mean 'a large amount of something', it is often followed by the preposition 'of'.