Dictionary

richdom en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈɹɪt͡ʃdəm/

Etymology

Probably a calque of a similar formation in a continental West Germanic language, such as Dutch rijkdom (“wealth”) or German Reichtum (“wealth”); equivalent to rich + -dom. Compare Middle English richedom (“wealth, riches”), Old English rīċedōm (“dominion”), Swedish rikedom (“wealth, richness”), and Icelandic ríkidómur (“riches, power”).

Meanings

1. (rare, uncountable, usually) Wealth; riches; richness; prosperity.
   • Free nature in her inexhaustible richdom of forms can never be fettered into the narrow bounds, which we may assign to any of our technic definitions. 1879, Ferdinand von Mueller, The native plants of Victoria, succinctly defined:
   • In western Europe, the spirit of the bourgeois developed slowly towards a capitalist mentality. According to Werner Sombart, the bourgeois was a challenger of the nobility and used the accumulation of richdom to get access to the oligarchy of the different courts in Europe. 2006, José María Magone, The new world architecture:
   • Taking into consideration the taming of all creative richdoms of ideas on the basis of our graphic guidelines, we graphic specialists still have enough freedom to sensibly handle all design tasks. 1984, Wolfgang Schmittel, corporate design international:
   • [...] and therefore still more approaches in its richdom of tan-principle to the genuine Sumach-leaves of Rhus coriaria. 1888, Royal Society of New South Wales, Journal and proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales:

Forms

wikipedia: West Germanic