Affluent: Definition and part of speech

Affluent

  1. n. A stream or river flowing into a larger river or into a lake; a tributary stream.
  2. a. Flowing to; flowing abundantly.
  3. a. Abundant; copious; plenteous; hence, wealthy; abounding in goods or riches.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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