Rich

Definition

rich /rÇtʃ/ adj ( -er,-est ) ၁။ ဥစၥာဓန ႂကြယ္ဝေသာ၊ ခ်မ္းသာေသာ။ the rich countries of the world ❍ grow become/ get richer and richer ❍ The business deal made him a very rich man. ၂။ (က) ~ in sth ႂကြယ္ဝ [ေသာ]။ Oranges are rich in vitamin C. ❍ a play rich in humour ❍ a fertilizer rich in nitrogen. (ခ) ေျမဩဇာေကာင္းေသာ။ rich, well-drained soil. ၃။ (က) လိႈင္ေသာ။ ျပည့္ႏွက္ေနေသာ။ a rich harvest ❍ ( fig ) The book is a rich source of ideas. (ခ) စိုျပည္ဆန္းစံုေသာ။ ထူးကဲဆန္းစံုေသာ။ She leads a rich and varied life. ❍ Rome has an immensely rich history. ၄။ အီဆိမ့္ေသာ။ a rich fruit cake ❍ a rich creamy sauce. ၅။ (က) ရင့္မွည့္စိုျပည္ေသာ၊ ဝင္းမွည့္ေသာ (အေရာင္)။ ဩဇာ ျပည့္လွ်မ္းေသာ (အသံ)။ the rich colours of autumn leaves ❍ a rich soothing voice. (ခ) ေမႊးထံုႀကိဳင္လိႈင္ေသာ။ ထူးကဲေသာ။ the rich aroma of freshly ground coffee. ၆။ အဖိုးထိုက္လွပေသာ။ rich fabrics/ furnishings. ၇။ ( infml ) သူခိုးက လူလူဟစ္တာ အံ့ပါရဲ႕။ ‘He said you were lazy. ’ ‘That's (a bit) rich coming from someone who never gets up before midday!’ ❏ the rich n [pl v ] ဓနရွင္။ ေၾကးရတတ္။ သူေဌးသူႂကြယ္။ take from the rich and give to the poor. ❏ richly adv ၁။ ထိုက္ထိုက္တန္တန္။ She was richly rewarded for her trouble. ၂။ အဆန္းတၾကယ္။ ေထြေထြ ဆန္းဆန္း။ ဆန္းစံုစြာ။ a richly-decorated robe. ၃။ လံုးလံုး လ်ားလ်ား။ ထိုက္ထိုက္တန္တန္။ a richly deserved success ❍ Her success was richly earned. ❏ richness n [U] ထူးကဲႂကြယ္ဝမႈ။ လွပဆန္းၾကယ္မႈ။ ဝင္းမွည့္စိုျပည္မႈ။ the richness and diversity of Japanese culture ❍ the richness of the furnishings ❍ The painting has an amazing richness of colour.

Examples

1. His invention has made him a rich man.
2. One of the world’s richest countries
3. A lot of people thought they could get rich by investing in Internet companies.
4. A tax-cutting programme that will only benefit the rich
5. [(the) rich and (the) poor] : The increasing gap between the rich and the poor
6. [the rich and famous] : A glamorous life in the company of the rich and famous
7. Rich iron deposits
8. [rich in] : An area rich in natural resources
9. A diet rich in protein
10. A speech rich in irony
11. A rich chocolate dessert
12. A rich fruit cake
13. Rich agricultural land
14. Rich silks and brocades
15. A rich deep green
16. A rich baritone voice
17. The rich odour of spiced meats
18. A town with a rich cultural heritage
19. The tournament with golf’s richest first prize
20. [a bit rich] : These comments are a bit rich coming from a woman with a wealthy husband and no money worries.
21. [that’s rich] : You’re insulted! That’s rich
22. after what you said to me!