nouveau riche

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French nouveau riche (literally “new rich”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌnuː.vəʊ ˈɹiːʃ/
• IPA^(key): /ˌnu.voʊ ˈɹiʃ/, /ˌnu.voʊ ˈɹɪtʃ/
• Rhymes: -ɪtʃ

Noun

nouveau riche (plural nouveaux riches)

1. (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.

   Synonym: parvenu

   Antonym: vieux riche

Usage notes

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.

Translations

new money: wealthy persons whose fortunes are newly acquired, and who are therefore perceived to lack the refinement of those who were raised wealthy

• Arabic: مُحْدَث اَلنَّعْمَة m (muḥdaṯ an-naʕma)
• Bulgarian: новобогата́ш m (novobogatáš)
• Catalan: nou-ric
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 暴發戶／暴发户 (zh) (bàofāhù), 暴发户 (zh) (bàofāhù)

• Czech: zbohatlík m
• Esperanto: novriĉulo
• Finnish: uusrikkaat pl
• French: nouveau riche (fr), arriviste (fr) m or f, parvenu (fr) m
• German: Neureicher (de) m, Parvenü (de) m, Emporkömmling (de) m, Neureiche (de) pl or f, Geldadel (de) m
• Greek: νεόπλουτος (el) m (neóploutos)
• Hungarian: újgazdag (hu)
• Icelandic: nýríkur maður m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: 成り金 (なりきん, narikin), 成り上がり者 (なりあがりもの, nariagarimono), 出来星 (ja) (できぼし, dekiboshi)
• Korean: 벼락부자 (byeorakbuja)
• Persian: نوکیسه (fa) (now-kise)
• Polish: nowobogacki (pl) m, nuworysz (pl) m, nowobogacz, dorobkiewicz m, parweniusz (pl) m
• Portuguese: novo rico m
• Romanian: parvenit (ro) m, ajuns (ro) m, căpătuit (ro) m
• Russian: нувори́ш (ru) m (nuvoríš), парвеню́ (ru) m (parvenjú), вы́скочка (ru) m or f (výskočka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: skorojević (sh) m, skorojevićka (sh) f

• Spanish: nuevo rico m
• Tagalog: biglang-yaman, taong biglang-yaman
• Turkish: sonradan görme (tr)

Adjective

nouveau riche (not comparable)

1. Newly rich; like a nouveau riche.

Antonyms

• nouveau pauvre
• vieux riche