nouveau riche
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from French nouveau riche (literally “new rich”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (UK, Anglicised) IPA(key): /ˌnuː.vəʊ ˈɹiːʃ/
- (US, Anglicised) IPA(key): /ˌnu.voʊ ˈɹiʃ/, /ˌnu.voʊ ˈɹɪtʃ/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɪtʃ
Noun[edit]
nouveau riche (countable and uncountable, plural nouveaux riches)
- (derogatory) New money; wealthy persons whose fortunes are newly acquired, and who are therefore perceived to lack the refinement of those who were raised wealthy.
- Synonyms: parvenu, arriviste, neo-rich
- Antonyms: vieux riche, nouveau pauvre
- 1873, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, chapter VII, in The Parisians[1], book III:
- 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.
- 1921, Lord Frederic Hamilton, Here, There And Everywhere[2]:
- Twenty-four hours later we were both in the vast halls of the Winter Palace in full uniform, as bedizened with gold as a nouveau riche’s drawing-room.
Usage notes[edit]
nouveau riche is sometimes treated as a singular noun with the plural nouveaux riches and sometimes as a plural noun with no separate singular form.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
new money: wealthy persons whose fortunes are newly acquired, and who are therefore perceived to lack the refinement of those who were raised wealthy
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Adjective[edit]
nouveau riche (not comparable)
- Newly rich; like a nouveau riche.
- 1899, Edith Wharton, “A Cup of Cold Water”, in The Greater Inclination[3]:
- 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 the nude in art and is not sure how to behave in the presence of either.
Translations[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- nouveau riche on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
French[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
nouveau riche m (plural nouveaux riches)
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