0 having a lot of money or valuable possessions:
He is determined to get rich quickly.
They're one of the world's richest nations.
He's the third richest man in the country.
1 containing a large amount of a valuable natural substance such as coal, oil, or wood:
She had a rich and varied life and met many famous and exciting people.
One of the mysteries of our times is why some oil-rich countries have so many poor living in them.
This type of pension plan is popular with business owners or property-rich investors.
The English language is rich in vocabulary.
The country has vast oil reserves and rich deposits of other minerals.
2 A rich colour, sound, smell, or taste is strong in a pleasing or attractive way:
3 If food is rich, it contains a large amount of oil, butter, eggs, or cream:
4 used to describe someone's opinions when that person has the same bad qualities as the person they are criticizing:
5 rich people considered together as a group:
The resort is frequented by the rich and famous.
The use of the various focus levels as well as the expectation list makes the framework richer than the stack approach.
Crucially, this richer notion of political equality may, if appropriately institutionalized, lead to a more robust and durable form of political stability.
An alternative is to consider a richer type system that supports first-class polymorphism.
Under this mechanism, a citizen who had been appointed to undertake a public expense could challenge another richer citizen to undertake it himself.
There are riches here for those interested in the hymn within monastic culture, and in institutional or regional history.
Generations of students are the richer for his teaching and exemplary scholarship.
Convergence of backward economies with richer ones seems to be conditional on human capital formation.
The earth and its riches are protected and arranged in horizontal harmony, expressive of the here and now.
