'Nouveau riche' definitions:
Definition of 'Nouveau riche'
From: GCIDE
- Nouveau riche \Nou`veau" riche"\, m., Nouvelle riche \Nou`velle" riche"\, f.; pl. m. Noveaux riches, f. Nouvelles riches. [F.] A person newly rich. Contrasted with old money. [Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]
Synonyms of 'nouveau riche'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- adventurer,
- arriviste,
- Babbitt,
- boor,
- bounder,
- bourgeois,
- bourgeois gentilhomme,
- bright young man,
- cad,
- churl,
- clown,
- comer,
- epicier,
- fledgling,
- groundling,
- guttersnipe,
- hooligan,
- ill-bred fellow,
- looby,
- lout,
- low fellow,
- modern,
- modern generation,
- modern man,
- modernist,
- modernizer,
- mucker,
- mushroom,
- name-dropper,
- neologism,
- neologist,
- neology,
- neonate,
- neoteric,
- neoterism,
- neoterist,
- new generation,
- new man,
- newly-rich,
- nouveau roturier,
- novus homo,
- parvenu,
- peasant,
- Philistine,
- pig in clover,
- ribald,
- rising generation,
- roturier,
- rough,
- roughneck,
- rowdy,
- ruffian,
- social climber,
- sprout,
- status seeker,
- stripling,
- tufthunter,
- upstart,
- vulgarian,
- vulgarist,
- would-be gentleman,
- yokel,
- Young Turk