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单词 nouveau riche
释义

nouveau riche

[ noo-voh -reesh; French noo-voh -reesh ]
/ ˈnu voʊ ˈriʃ; French nu voʊ ˈriʃ /
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noun, plural nou·veaux riches [noo-voh -reesh; French noo-voh -reesh]. /ˈnu voʊ ˈriʃ; French nu voʊ ˈriʃ/.

a person who is newly rich: the ostentation of the nouveaux riches of the 1920s.

Origin of nouveau riche

1805–15; <French: new rich (person)

Words nearby nouveau riche

nous, no use crying over spilt milk, no use, it's, nouveau, nouveau pauvre, nouveau riche, nouveau roman, nouveauté, nouvelle, Nouvelle-Calédonie, nouvelle cuisine
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British Dictionary definitions for nouveau riche

nouveau riche
/ (ˌnuːvəʊ ˈriːʃ, French nuvo riʃ) /

noun plural nouveaux riches (ˌnuːvəʊ ˈriːʃ, French nuvo riʃ)

(often plural) a person who has acquired wealth recently and is regarded as vulgarly ostentatious or lacking in social graces

adjective

of or characteristic of the nouveaux riches

Word Origin for nouveau riche

French, literally: new rich
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Cultural definitions for nouveau riche

nouveau riche
[ (nooh-voh reesh) ]

A pejorative term for one who has recently become rich and who spends money conspicuously. From French, meaning “new rich.”

The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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