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Narrator: Today's word is "Riches" — noun, pronounced /ˈrɪtʃɪz/, with the stress on "rich".
Narrator: Riches are large amounts of money, possessions or valuable things.
Narrator: In plain English, riches means great wealth.
Narrator: It comes from old French richesse, wealth.
Narrator: A common collocation is "rags to riches", which describes going from poverty to wealth.
Narrator: It differs from "income", because income is money earned regularly, while riches is accumulated wealth.
Narrator: In a second sense, "an embarrassment of riches" means having too many good choices.
Narrator: Literature, finance, history and film all rely on the word.
Narrator: So remember: riches are treasures, in money or in blessings.
Speaker A: Why do people love that film?
Speaker B: It's a rags-to-RICHES story! It comes from old French richesse.
Speaker A: Poor boy becomes a millionaire?
Speaker B: Exactly.
Speaker A: Example sentences?
Speaker B: "The pharaohs were buried with riches", history. "Health is worth more than riches", a proverb. "An embarrassment of riches on the menu", food.
Speaker A: Common mistakes?
Speaker B: Riches is always plural and takes a plural verb, "riches are".
Speaker A: Close relatives?
Speaker B: Wealth is its cousin, fortune its twin, and treasure an alternative — yet riches keep their golden charm!
Speaker B: Let's use "riches" in AI prompts — useful for storytelling and game design.
Speaker A: How for stories?
Speaker B: Build arcs.
Prompt: Outline a rags-to-riches story set in Victorian London.
Speaker A: And games?
Speaker B: Rewards.
Prompt: Design a treasure room full of riches with a clever puzzle to unlock it.
Speaker A: Could it help history?
Speaker B: Yes, for museums.
Prompt: Describe the riches found in Tutankhamun’s tomb for a school project.
Speaker A: One more?
Speaker B: Reviews.
Prompt: Write a review saying a festival line-up is an embarrassment of riches.
Riches — meaning in Arabic & definition More R courses GL Dictionary