As a nation's wealth is the social worth of its capital assets, it is a measure of the nation's opulence. The opulence of the costume suggested authority and wealth and, no doubt, sparked fantasy in the audience's imagination.
How would you use opulence in a sentence?
wealth as evidenced by sumptuous living.
- His eyes had never beheld such opulence.
- The room was decorated with stagy opulence.
- The house was a surreal mixture of opulence and decay.
- From the comparative opulence of 17-6 they then slipped into penury by conceding 18 unanswered points.
What do you mean by opulence?
1 : wealth, affluence the opulence of prerevolutionary monarchs. 2 : abundance, profusion an opulence of fruits.
