affluent
adjective
having an abundance of wealth, property, or other material goods; prosperous; rich.
affluents
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pluralof affluent.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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This “we are like you, but slightly better” model has many less-affluent Millennials wishing for earlier times when affluents entirely segregated themselves rather than show them what they are missing out on.
From Forbes ● Oct. 2, 2012
It is computed by good authority that this river, with its numerous affluents, forms a system of navigable water twenty-four thousand miles in length!
From Equatorial America Descriptive of a Visit to St. Thomas, Martinique, Barbadoes, and the Principal Capitals of South America by Maturin Murray Ballou
The principal rivers flowing from the watershed northward are the Findhorn, Spey, Don, Dee and their tributaries, and southward the South Esk, Tay and Forth with their affluents.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" by Various
This stream waters the country of the mines, and interlocks, by its affluents, with the Gasconade on the west, and the St. Francis on the south.
From Scenes and Andventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
It should be noted that the area embraced within this estimate includes the Kings River basin as a whole, together with that of all its affluents.
From The Aboriginal Population of the San Joaquin Valley, California by Sherburne F. Cook
