Meaning & use
wealthy person
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Meaning
nouncountable
a person who has a large amount of money and valuable possessions.
Grammar: Countable: you can say a wealthy person or wealthy people, and the plural is wealthy persons in very formal or legal writing.
Patterns
- a wealthy person
- wealthy people
- a very wealthy person
The charity was started by a wealthy person who wanted to give something back.
Only a wealthy person could afford a house in that neighborhood.
The magazine interviewed several wealthy people about how they made their money.
Word forms
| plural | wealthy persons |
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Common combinations
- a very wealthy person
- She became a very wealthy person after selling her company.
- a wealthy person from
- A wealthy person from the city donated the new library.
- a wealthy person who
- He is a wealthy person who gives a lot to local schools.
- one of the wealthiest people
- She is one of the wealthiest people in the country.
Synonyms and how they differ
- rich person
- Rich person is more common in everyday speech and can sound a little blunt; wealthy person sounds more neutral and polite.
- millionaire
- A millionaire has at least a million dollars or pounds, so it is more specific than wealthy person, who may have more or less.
- the wealthy
- The wealthy means wealthy people as a group and is used in writing about society or economics, not for one individual.
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Practice
Which sentence uses 'wealthy person' correctly?
Choose one answer.
'Wealthy' is an adjective, so it comes before the noun: a wealthy person. 'Wealth person' is wrong because 'wealth' is a noun, not an adjective. 'Wealthy persons' is grammatically possible but sounds very formal and is not the usual plural.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “wealthy person”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.