English
Noun
nouveau riche (plural nouveaux riches)
- (pejorative) New money; wealthy persons whose fortunes are newly acquired, and who are therefore perceived to lack the refinement of those who were raised wealthy.
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
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- Icelandic: nýríkur maður m
- Japanese: 成り金 (なりきん, narikin), 成り上がり者 (なりあがりもの, nariagari-mono), 出来星 (ja) (できぼし, dekiboshi)
- Persian: تازه به دوران رسیده (tâze-be-dowrân-reside)
- Polish: nowobogacz m, nuworysz (pl) m, nowobogacki, 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, f (výskočka)
- Serbo-Croatian: skorojević (sh) m, skorojevićka (sh) f
- Spanish: nuevo rico m
- Tagalog: biglang-yaman, taong biglang-yaman
- Turkish: sonradan görme (tr)
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Antonyms
Adjective
nouveau riche (not comparable)
- Newly rich; like a nouveau riche.
Antonyms