1. nouveau-riche - Noun
2. nouveau-riche - Adjective
3. nouveau-riche - Adjective Satellite
a person who has suddenly risen to a higher economic status but has not gained social acceptance of others in that class
characteristic of someone who has risen economically or socially but lacks the social skills appropriate for this new position
Source: WordNetnouveau riche
Aware that dreams and ideas do not come true, she marries a nouveau riche who is in love with her. Source: Internet
Should they marry, Fleur would elevate the status of her family from "nouveau riche" to the aristocratic upper class. Source: Internet
For example, after a few generations, the fact that they are nouveau riche does not matter as much. Source: Internet
Michel Pinçon and Monique Pinçon-Charlot have studied the lifestyle of the French bourgeoisie, and how they boldly guard their world from the nouveau riche, or newly rich. Source: Internet
Residents worry that skyrocketing rents are pricing out all but the tech industry's nouveau riche, forcing out the motley groups of artists, do-gooders, immigrants and zealots who make the city a special place. Source: Internet
Parades of finely drawn characters—a Spanish makeup artist, a black jazz singer afflicted with vitiligo, a lovely Italian nouveau riche family in Great Neck, New York, a soulful German mechanic—enter and leave the scene. Source: Internet