Associations to the word «Affluent»

Wiktionary

AFFLUENT, noun. (Discuss([/2016/?action=edit&section=new&preloadtitle=%5B%5BAffluent%5D%5D +]) this sense) Somebody who is wealthy.
AFFLUENT, noun. A stream or river flowing into a larger river or into a lake; a tributary stream; a tributary.
AFFLUENT, adjective. Abundant; copious; plenteous.
AFFLUENT, adjective. (by extension) Abounding in goods or riches; materially wealthy.
AFFLUENT, adjective. (dated) Tributary.
AFFLUENT, adjective. (obsolete) Flowing to; flowing abundantly.

Dictionary definition

AFFLUENT, noun. An affluent person; a person who is financially well off; "the so-called emerging affluents".
AFFLUENT, noun. A branch that flows into the main stream.
AFFLUENT, adjective. Having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value; "an affluent banker"; "a speculator flush with cash"; "not merely rich but loaded"; "moneyed aristocrats"; "wealthy corporations".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats