Preposition: as

• result: The production and trade of these aromatics were in the hands of the ancient South Arabians, who became extremely wealthy as a result.

Modifies a noun

• businessman: Which reminds me of a story of a wealthy Texan businessman who held a large party at his ranch with 32 oz steaks galore.

• merchant: In 1770 he married Mary Norris, daughter of a wealthy merchant.

• patron: At the same time, however, wealthy patrons demanded a wider range of luxury goods.

• industrialist: Nick is drawn into this charmed circle - going to country houses, rubbing shoulders with wealthy industrialists.

• suburb: These burglaries take place in Durban's " wealthy white suburbs " .

Modifying Another Word

• fabulously: How did this man become so fabulously wealthy from a life supposedly devoted to public service?

• immensely: Standing on important trade-routes and drawing on the natural resources of Mesopotamia, it was immensely wealthy.

• moderately: Our council serves a moderately wealthy collection of outer city suburbs, typical mortgage belt issues are prominent.

• fantastically: In which Gilbert is contacted by a fantastically wealthy refugee who wants to invest in the hotel business.

• independently: He came down from Oxford in 1763 an independently wealthy man following the death of his father in 1761.

• hugely: They have been encouraged to remain childish to the benefit of hugely wealthy religious institutions.

Infinitive complement

• own: Parks were once a vey good way of ensuring that your posterity if you were wealthy enough to own a fair bit of land.

Used with adjective complement

• become: Often become wealthy in later life through their own efforts.

• grow: By 800 BC society had begun to recover and even grow wealthy.

• feel: People feel wealthy because they have equity, but don't realize that it's illusory.

• get: Yet the nation would be large enough to not be invaded by other nation the moment it got wealthy.

Preposition: of

• world: These 200 people on my left would be the wealthy of the world, who consume 80 per cent of the available resources.