new nouveau riche
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.38 in modern English
26
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
3
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Individuals who have emerged more recently into wealth compared to the traditional nouveau riche.
Derogatory; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "The teen-age girl is the last of the big spenders; she's the new nouveau riche."
- "It gave rise to a new nouveau riche, apparently consisting of middlemen, commission agents, and comprador merchants who thrived on imported goods."
- "'It can be argued that new shopping developments in the high street are mainly for luxury consumption and for the leisure of the new nouveau riches and foreigners, with over nine-tenths of the population being reduced to the role of window-shopping.'"
- "The mentality, and the eventual demise, of the new nouveau riche, self-proclaimed owners of the City of Lagos lies in their belief that they have risen and would continue to stay above the law."