It's Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for June 5th.
Today's word is affluent, also pronounced affluent and spelled A-F-F-L-U-E-N-T.
Affluent is an adjective.
Someone described as affluent has a large amount of money and owns many expensive things.
Something such as a place or institution described as affluent is similarly rich or wealthy.
Here's the word used in the New York Times by Julie Lasky.
Princeton packs many charms into its 18.4 square miles.
halfway between New York and Philadelphia, it has long attracted affluent professionals,
many enduring commutes of more than an hour in return for roomy,
historic houses, old growth trees that burst into flower in spring,
and the cultural riches of Princeton University.
Visualize with us, coffers overflowing, a cash flow more than adequate, assets that are fluid,
an elderly duck in a top hat diving into a pool of gold coins.
The images conjured reflect the essence of the word affluent.
Based on the Latin verb fluere, meaning to flow, affluent is all about flow.
The same images echoed in other fluere descendants, such as the words confluence,
fluctuate, fluid, influence, mellifluous, and superfluous.
The flowing of goods or riches wasn't the word's first concern, however.
16th-century print examples of affluent tend to be about the abundance of such intangibles as goodness and spirit.
In the 17th century, the flow suggested by affluent varied greatly.