affluentとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音)
  • IPA: /ˈæf.lu.ənt/

• (米国発音)
  • enPR: ăf'lo͞o-ənt, IPA: /ˈæfluːənt/
  • enPR: ă-flo͞o'ənt, ə-flo͞o'ənt, IPA: /æˈfluːənt/, /əˈfluːənt/
  • Although the pronunciation with second-syllable stress does occur in educated U.S. usage, it is appreciably less common than the pronunciation with first-syllable stress and is regarded as unacceptable by many American speakers.

• (Indic)
  • IPA: /əˈflʊwəɳʈ/, /ˈaflʊwəɳʈ/

名詞

affluent (plural affluents)

1. Someone who is wealthy.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:moneybags

   • 1994, Philip D. Cooper, Health care marketing: a foundation for managed quality, page 183:

     The affluents are most similar to the professional want-it-alls in their reasons for preferring specific hospitals and in their demographic characteristics.

2. A stream or river flowing into a larger river or into a lake; a tributary stream; a tributary.
   • 1874, Bayard Taylor, compiler, “The Countries of Central Asia”, in Central Asia. Travels in Cashmere, Little Tibet, and Central Asia (Illustrated Library of Travel, Exploration, and Adventure), New York, N.Y.: Scribner, Armstrong, and Company, →OCLC, page 7:

     It [Central Asia] is separated from the river-system of the Aral and Caspian Seas, […] from the affluents of the Indus and Ganges, on the south, by the chain of the Küen-lün, the rival of the Himalayas, […]

   • 1895, J[ohn] W[esley] Powell, chapter I, in Canyons of the Colorado, Meadville, PA: Flood & Vincent; republished as The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons, New York: Dover, 1961, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 20:

     Its sources are everywhere in pine-clad mountains and plateaus, but all of the affluents quickly descend into the desert valley below, through which the Gila winds its way westward to the Colorado.

   • 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

     The affluents of the Amazon are, half of them, of this nature, while the other half are whitish and opaque, the difference depending upon the class of country through which they have flowed.

形容詞

affluent (comparative more affluent, superlative most affluent)

1. Abundant; copious; plenteous.
   • 1860, Mary Howitt, transl., Life in the Old World:

     The shores are affluent in beauty, and incomparably lovely is the drive to the heights of Castel-a-Mare.

2. (by extension) Abounding in goods or riches; having a moderate level of material wealth.

   They were affluent, but aspired to true wealth.

   The Upper East Side is an affluent neighborhood in New York City.

   • 2013 September-October, Michael Sivak, “Will AC Put a Chill on the Global Energy Supply?”, in American Scientist:

     Nevertheless, it is clear that the global energy demand for air-conditioning will grow substantially as nations become more affluent, with the consequences of climate change potentially accelerating the demand.

3. (dated) Tributary.
4. (obsolete) Flowing to; flowing abundantly.
   • 1672, Gideon Harvey, Morbus Anglicus, Or, The Anatomy of Consumptions:

     affluent blood

同意語

• See also Thesaurus:wealthy

反意語

• indigent

派生語

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