All 3 Uses of
opulent
in
Moby Dick
- ...nowhere in all America will you find ... parks and gardens more opulent, than in New Bedford.
Chpt 4-6 *opulent = magnificent and luxurious
- as they richly broke to my fingers, and discharged all their opulence, like fully ripe grapes their wine;†
Chpt 94-96opulence = magnificence or luxury
- Until the whale fishery rounded Cape Horn, no commerce but colonial, scarcely any intercourse but colonial, was carried on between Europe and the long line of the opulent Spanish provinces on the Pacific coast.†
Chpt 22-24
Definitions:
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(1)
(opulent) magnificent and luxurious -- usually expensive
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Much more rarely, opulent can reference a rich abundance of something; or that someone is rich.