affluent vs poor

affluent

noun
  • A stream or river flowing into a larger river or into a lake; a tributary stream; a tributary. 

  • Somebody who is wealthy. 

adj
  • Abundant; copious; plenteous. 

  • Abounding in goods or riches; having a moderate level of material wealth. 

  • The Upper East Side is an affluent neighborhood in New York City. 

poor

verb
  • Synonym of impoverish, to make poor. 

noun
  • A poor person. 

  • The poor people of a society or the world collectively, the poor class of a society. 

adj
  • Deficient in a specified way. 

  • Of low quality. 

  • Inadequate, insufficient. 

  • Free from self-assertion; not proud or arrogant; meek. 

  • Used to express pity. 

  • With no or few possessions or money, particularly in relation to contemporaries who do have them. 

How often have the words affluent and poor occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )