rich
part of speech
adjective (rich, richer, richest); noun (the rich)
meaning for a pupil
1) A rich person has a lot of money or valuable things. tree →
2) Rich means having a lot of something good, like «rich in vitamins» or «a rich history». tree →
3) Rich food has a lot of butter, cream, sugar or fat and fills you up quickly. tree →
4) Rich soil is good for growing plants. tree →
5) A rich colour or sound is deep and strong. tree →
sense in the lessons
In stories rich characters may be kind or greedy; in money lessons it means wealthy. In science and food lessons «rich in» means containing a lot of (iron-rich, protein-rich). Phrases: «get rich», «rich and famous», «rich in», «the rich and the poor».
examples
- The rich man lived in a huge house. tree →
- Oranges are rich in vitamin C. tree →
- This chocolate cake is very rich. tree →
- The farm has rich, dark soil. tree →
- Some people want to get rich quickly. tree →
- The singer had a rich, deep voice. tree →
- The museum shows the town's rich history. tree →
- Robin Hood took from the rich and gave to the poor. tree →
- But yet I grew not rich. tree →
note
Opposite: poor. «The rich» means rich people as a group. Trap: «get rich quick» offers are usually scams. Rich does not mean happy or good; and «rich in» is about amount, not money (a country rich in forests).
In the corpora
- Sam, Mia, Jake, Lily, Connor, Chloe and Maddie were characters, and real people are richer than any story.
- Red blood cells carry oxygen using iron-rich haemoglobin, white cells fight germs, and platelets help stop bleeding.
- Pets need proper food made for their kind; rich human food, like a cat eating lasagne, can make them ill.
- Real bears and honey badgers raid bee nests and eat the protein-rich grubs as well as the honey.
- Bird droppings piled up for centuries on islands were once mined as a rich fertiliser.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «rich» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.