Giáo án tiếng Anh 12 - Rich /rɪtʃ/ adjective (comparative richer, superlative richest)

ously rich. 
grow rich (= become rich) 
 - They have grown rich by selling this technology to other companies. 
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make somebody rich 
 - The trade in tea made the British rich. 
the new rich disapproving (= people who have recently become rich and spend a lot of money) 
 - For Russia's new rich, life is a candy store. 
rich having a lot of money – used about people and places: 
 - She married a rich Greek shipowner. 
 - one of the world’s richest nations 
wealthy rich – used about people and places, especially when they have been rich for a long time: 
 - wealthy landowners 
 - Orange County is a very wealthy area. 
 - a wealthy Arab businessman 
affluent formal rich – used about societies, groups of people, or areas where people live, where people have nice 
houses and a lot of expensive possessions: 
 - today’s affluent society 
 - affluent young professionals 
 - an affluent suburb of Boston 
prosperous formal rich – used about places and groups of people, especially when their money is related to 
success in business: 
 - Sales have grown fastest in the more prosperous areas of the south. 
 - prosperous merchants and bankers 
well-off fairly rich compared to other people, so that you can live very comfortably: 
 - Her parents are pretty well-off. 
 - children from well-off families 
well-to-do written rich – used especially in the past about families and people who had a fairly high position in 
society: 
 - Only well-to-do families could afford to send their children to university. 
 - The Westons were now well-to-do and there was no necessity for work. 
privileged having special advantages because your family have a lot of money and a high position in society: 
 - He comes from a privileged background. 
 - The sport was only played by a privileged few. 
comfortably off [not before noun] having enough money to have a nice life without having to worry about 
money: 
 - I wouldn’t say that we were rich – just comfortably off. 
be rolling in it/be loaded informal to be extremely rich: 
 - They’ve got two houses and a boat – they must be rolling in it. 
 - Her books were so successful that she’s loaded now. 
wealthy person/family/area 
affluent society/area/family/lifestyle 
prosperous area/economy/middle class 
well-to-do family 
privileged person/background/few/elite 
RELATED WORDS & EXPRESSIONS 
1. HAVING A LOT OF MONEY OR POSSESSIONS 
RICH /rɪtʃ/ [adjective] ▪ Her new boyfriend is very good-looking and very rich. ▪ You have to be rich to afford 
anything in this shop. ▪ The rich countries of the world have promised more aid for developing countries. ▪ Every 
year ‘Fortune’ magazine publishes a list of the 100 richest people in America. 
WEALTHY /ˈwelθi/ [adjective] rich, especially through owning land, property, or valuable possessions over a 
long period of time: ▪ She comes from a wealthy family, who own houses in London and Paris. ▪ The new taxes 
were aimed at the largest and wealthiest corporations. ▪ You would never have guessed from meeting him how 
immensely wealthy he was. 
WEALTH [uncountable noun] ▪ The discovery of oil brought great wealth to the area made the people there very 
wealthy. ▪ a country where there are extremes of wealth and poverty 
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WELL OFF /ˌwel ˈɒf◂/ [adjective] having more money than most people, so that you have a comfortable and 
easy life: ▪ They were sufficiently well off to buy their own apartment. 
RELATIVELY/REASONABLY WELL OFF ▪ a relatively well off familybetter off ▪ The government claim 
that people are better off now than they have ever been. 
WELL-TO-DO /ˌwel tə ˈduː◂/ [adjective] rich and respected because you have a fairly high position in society: 
WELL-TO-DO FAMILY/BACKGROUND ▪ He wants to find a husband from a well-to-do background for his 
daughter. ▪ Surprisingly, police statistics show that many of these thefts were carried out by people from well-to-
do families. 
WELL-TO-DO AREA/NEIGHBOURHOOD ▪ Educational facilities are best in the more well-to-do residential 
areas. 
AFFLUENT /ˈæfluənt/ [adjective] having a lot of money, especially as a result of your own hard work - use this 
when talking about people in a particular country or group in society: ▪ As people become more affluent, so their 
standard and style of living improves. 
AFFLUENT SUBURB ▪ We drove through affluent suburbs with large houses and tree-lined streets. 
AFFLUENT SOCIETY ▪ Consumer goods are a symbol of prestige in an affluent society. 
AFFLUENCE [uncountable noun] ▪ Since the Second World War there has been an increasing level of affluence 
in the West. 
PROSPEROUS /ˈprɒspərəsǁˈprɑː-/ [adjective] having a lot of money and a high standard of living, especially as 
a result of being successful in business: ▪ a prosperous American businessman ▪ After the war, Germany became 
one of Europe’s most prosperous countries. 
PROSPERITY /prɒˈsperɪti, prɒˈsperətiǁprɑː-/ [uncountable noun] ▪ The town’s prosperity comes from the textile 
industry. 
BE COMFORTABLY off /biː ˌkʌmftəbli ˈɒfǁ-ˌkʌmfərt-/ [verb phrase] to have enough money to live 
comfortably without worrying about money: ▪ When the children were small we never had much money, but now 
we seem to be comfortably off. 
COMFORTABLE /ˈkʌmftəbəl, ˈkʌmfət-ǁˈkʌmfərt-, ˈkʌmft-/ [adjective] having enough money to live 
comfortably without worrying about money - use this about people or their financial situation: ▪ My wife and I are 
very lucky, really, we’re comfortable, even though we’re both retired. 
HAVE A COMFORTABLE LIFE ▪ They’ve had a much more comfortable life since she started her new job. 
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IN COMFORTABLE CIRCUMSTANCES ▪ He had supposed Mrs Mack to have been in comfortable 
circumstances, so he was surprised when he saw her tiny apartment. 
2. EXTREMELY RICH 
BE LOADED/BE ROLLING IN IT /biː ˈləʊd d, biː ˈrəʊlɪŋ ɪn ɪt/ [verb phrase] informal to be extremely rich: ▪ 
Did you know Peter has three houses? He must be loaded. ▪ Some of her friends are absolutely rolling in it. 
STINKING/FILTHY RICH /ˌstɪŋkɪŋ, ˌfɪlθi ˈrɪtʃ/ [adjective phrase] spoken informal extremely rich - use this 
especially when you think this is unfair: ▪ Gregory is filthy rich but he never gives a penny to charity. ▪ This 
gorgeous woman walked in, beautifully dressed and obviously stinking rich. 
BE WORTH A FORTUNE/BE WORTH MILLIONS /biː ˌwɜːʳθ ə ˈfɔːʳtʃən, biː ˌwɜːʳθ ˈmɪljənz/ [verb phrase] 
to be extremely rich, especially because you have earned a lot of money in business, or through sport, 
entertainment, etc.: ▪ Michael Jackson must be worth a fortune. ▪ The Chief Executive started her career as a 
secretary, and now she’s worth millions. 
HAVE MONEY TO BURN /hæv ˌmʌni tə ˈbɜːʳn/ [verb phrase not in progressive] to have so much money that 
you can buy anything you want, even things that you do not need: ▪ Every time I see her she’s wearing something 
new. She must have money to burn. ▪ Unless you’ve got money to burn, these expensive guitars are not the 
instruments to get you started. 
3. HAVING A LOT OF MONEY NOW, BUT NOT ALWAYS RICH 
FLUSH /flʌʃ/ [adjective not before noun] informal: ▪ I’ll buy the drinks, I’m feeling flush just now. ▪ Alan gives 
his wife fifty dollars a week, or a little more if he’s flush. [lên hương] 
BE IN THE MONEY /biː ɪn ðə ˈmʌni/ [verb phrase] informal to have a lot of money now because you have 
received some money unexpectedly, for example by winning a prize: ▪ He used to be always wanting a loan, and 
then all at once, he was in the money. 
4. A RICH PERSON 
MAN/WOMAN/PERSON OF MEANS /ˌmæn, ˌwʊmən, ˌpɜːʳsən əv ˈmiːnz/ [noun phrase] a person who is very 
rich, usually because they own land, property, etc. or because they have a family that has always been rich: ▪ 
Taylor is a man of means. His family owns several apartment blocks in New York. ▪ These were people of means 
who could afford to pay expensive legal fees. 
MILLIONAIRE /ˌmɪljəˈneəʳ/ [countable noun] a person who has a million pounds or dollars, or more: ▪ The 
money to keep the hospital open was provided by a London millionaire. ▪ I can’t afford a new car just now. I’m 
no millionaire, you know. 
MULTI-MILLIONAIRE /ˌmʌlti mɪljəˈneəʳ/ [countable noun] a person who has many millions of pounds or 
dollars: ▪ Louis Berg is a multi-millionaire who made his money in the newspaper business. 
MAGNATE /ˈmægneɪt, -nət/ [countable noun] a rich and powerful person in a particular industry: ▪ Foundations 
set up by magnates such as Carnegie and Rockefeller provided most of the funding for the arts in the US. 
STEEL/OIL/SHIPPING, etc. MAGNATE ▪ She married a Texan oil magnate. ▪ the property magnate who 
owns the Empire State Building 
FAT CAT /ˌfæt ˈkæt/ [countable noun] someone who makes a lot of money from a particular industry or business 
- use this about people who you think do not deserve to earn so much because they do not run their industry well, 
do not provide a good service, etc.: ▪ They do not resent the city fat cats, but believe top businessmen deserve 
success. ▪ Why should those fat cats get rich through our efforts? 
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MONEYBAGS /ˈmʌnibægz/ [singular noun] informal use this when you are saying in a humorous way that 
someone has a lot of money: ▪ Nowadays, if you’re not a moneybags, some places don’t want to have anything to 
do with you. 
THE RICH /ðə ˈrɪtʃ/ [plural noun] all the people who are rich in a particular country, society, etc. - use this 
especially when you are comparing them with people who are poor: ▪ Under this government the rich seem to 
have got richer and the poor poorer. ▪ Democracy gave the poor, as well as the rich, a part