riches

1. 1.

   an abundance of material possessions and resources

   Synonymswealth

   Broadermaterial resource

   Narrowergoldtreasure

Other forms of riches

plural

richeses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about riches

What does riches mean?

riches means "an abundance of material possessions and resources".

How many syllables are in riches?

riches has 2 syllables: ric-hes. The stress falls on "ric". In IPA it is /ˈɹɪtʃəz/.

What is another word for riches?

Close synonyms include wealth. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is riches a common word?

riches is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.