单词 | nouveau riche |
释义 | nouveau riche[ noo-voh -reesh; French noo-voh -reesh ] / ˈnu voʊ ˈriʃ; French nu voʊ ˈriʃ / SEE SYNONYMS FOR nouveau riche ON THESAURUS.COM 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 riche1805–15; <French: new rich (person) Words nearby nouveau richenous, no use crying over spilt milk, no use, it's, nouveau, nouveau pauvre, nouveau riche, nouveau roman, nouveauté, nouvelle, Nouvelle-Calédonie, nouvelle cuisine Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 British Dictionary definitions for nouveau richenouveau 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 adjectiveof or characteristic of the nouveaux riches Word Origin for nouveau richeFrench, 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 richenouveau 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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