nouveau riche
adjective /ˌnuː.vəʊˈriːʃ/
/-voʊ-/ disapprovingDefinition
› describes people from a low social class who have recently become very rich and like to show this publicly by spending a lot of moneyWealthiness and wealthy the nouveau riche noun [plural] › The restaurant is popular with the city's nouveau riche.Wealthy people
(Definition of nouveau riche adjective from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- afloat adjective
- be rolling in it idiom
- deep pockets idiom
- feather your own nest idiom
- flush adjective (RICH)
- get-rich-quick idiom
- in the lap of luxury idiom
- landed adjective
- live high on/off the hog idiom
- live off the fat of the land idiom
- money talks idiom
- not be short of a bob or two idiom
- on easy street idiom
- privilege noun
- purchasing power noun
- rags-to-riches adjective
- rich adjective (MONEY)
- self-supporting adjective
- strike it rich idiom
- well endowed adjective
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