Nouveau-riche

Definitions: Nouveau-riche

Nouveau-riche

Adjective

1. Characteristic of someone who has risen economically or socially but lacks the social skills appropriate for this new position.

Noun

1. A person who has suddenly risen to a higher economic status but has not gained social acceptance of others in that class.

Usage Frequency: Nouveau-riche

"Nouveau-riche" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Nouveau-riche" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Anagrams: Nouveau-riche

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-h-i-n-o-r-u-u-v"
	-4 letters: achiever, avoucher, cheveron, chivaree, coinhere, overnice, revanche, unheroic, veronica.
	-5 letters: achieve, archine, archive, cervine, cheerio, chevron, chorine, coenure, coenuri, corneae, corvina, corvine, eucaine, haviour, heavier, herniae, heroine, incurve, nouveau, ochreae, revoice, uncover, unvoice, vouchee, voucher.
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