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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Affluent \Af"flu*ent\, adjective [Cf. F. affluent, L. affluens, -entis, p. pr. See {Affluence}.]
1. Flowing to; flowing abundantly. ''Affluent blood.'' --Harvey.
2. Abundant; copious; plenteous; hence, wealthy; abounding in goods or riches.
Language . . . affluent in expression. --H. Reed.
Loaded and blest with all the affluent store, Which human vows at smoking shrines implore. --Prior.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Affluent \Af"flu*ent\, noun A stream or river flowing into a larger river or into a lake; a tributary stream.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
affluent
adjective: having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value; "an affluent banker"; "a speculator flush with cash"; "not merely rich but loaded"; "moneyed aristocrats"; "wealthy corporations" [syn: {flush}, {loaded}, {moneyed}, {wealthy}]
noun
1: an affluent person; a person who is financially well off; "the so-called emerging affluents"
2: a branch that flows into the main stream [syn: {feeder}, {tributary}] [ant: {distributary}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
118 Moby Thesaurus words for "affluent": abounding, abounding in riches, abundant, acquisitive, all-sufficing, ample, aplenty, big-rich, bottomless, bounteous, bountiful, comfortable, comfortably situated, confluent, copious, coursing, decurrent, defluent, diffluent, diffuse, disgustingly rich, easy, effuse, epidemic, exhaustless, extravagant, exuberant, fat, fertile, flowing, fluent, flush, fluxional, fluxive, frightfully rich, full, galore, generous, grasping, gulfy, gushing, in clover, in funds, in good case, in luxury, in plenty, in quantity, in the money, independent, independently rich, independently wealthy, inexhaustible, lavish, liberal, loaded, luxuriant, luxurious, made of money, many, maximal, mazy, meandering, moneyed, much, numerous, on Easy Street, on velvet, oofy, opulent, overflowing, plenitudinous, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, pouring, prevailing, prevalent, prodigal, productive, profluent, profuse, profusive, prosperous, provided for, racing, rampant, replete, rich, rich as Croesus, rife, riotous, rolling in money, running, running over, rushing, serpentine, sluggish, streaming, successful, superabundant, surging, surgy, teeming, tidal, vortical, wallowing in wealth, warm, wealthy, well provided for, well-fixed, well-found, well-furnished, well-heeled, well-off, well-provided, well-stocked, well-to-do, wholesale
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