nouveau riche
/ˌnu.voʊ ˈɹiʃ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.38 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
2
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
- "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."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˌnu.voʊ ˈɹiʃ/
- British English: /ˌnuː.vəʊ ˈɹiːʃ/