nouveau riche
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nouveau riche
- /ˌnuː.vəʊ ˈɹiːʃ/ UK
- /ˌnu.voʊ ˈɹiʃ/ US
- /ˌnu.voʊ ˈɹɪt͡ʃ/ US
Rhymes with -ɪtʃ
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An unadapted borrowing from French nouveau riche (literally “new rich”).
noun nouveaux riches
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New money; wealthy persons whose fortunes are newly acquired, and who are therefore perceived to lack the refinement of those who were raised wealthy.
You must find your opening at Paris. I wish you to spend a year in the capital, and live, not extravagantly, like a nouveau riche, but in a way not unsuited to your rank, and permitting you all the social advantages that belong to it.
Similar: parvenu, arriviste, neo-rich · Opposite: vieux riche, nouveau pauvre
adjective
- Newly rich; like a nouveau riche. Her supreme charm was the simplicity that comes of taking it for granted that people are born with carriages and country-places: it never occurred to her that such congenital attributes could be matter for self-consciousness, and she had none of the nouveau riche prudery which classes poverty with t
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noun new money: wealthy persons whose fortunes are newly acquired, and who are therefore perceived to lack the refinement of those who were raised wealthy
| Español | arribista, nuevo rico |
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| 한국어 | 졸부 jolbu, 벼락부자 byeorakbuja |
| 日本語 | 成り金 narikin, 成り上がり者 nariagarimono, 出来星 dekiboshi |
| 中文 | 暴發戶 /暴发户 bàofāhù, 土豪 tǔháo |
| हिन्दी | नए अमीर nae amīr, कल का नवाब kal kā navāb |
| Português | parvenu, arrivista, novo-rico |
| Français | nouveau riche, arriviste, parvenu |
| Deutsch | Neureicher, Emporkömmling, Parvenü |
| Italiano | parvenu |
| Ελληνικά | νεόπλουτος neóploutos |
| Română | parvenit, ajuns, căpătuit |
| Русский | нувори́ш nuvoríš, парвеню́ parvenjú, вы́скочка výskočka |
| Tiếng Việt | nhà giàu mới nổi |
| العربية | مُحْدَث اَلنَّعْمَة muḥdaṯ an-naʕma |
| עברית | נוּבּוֹרֶישֶׁ nuvórish |
adj newly rich
| Deutsch | neureich |
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title = {nouveau riche},
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