Usually means: Wealthy individuals, lacking traditional refinement.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word nouveau riche:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. nouveau riche: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. nouveau riche: Merriam-Webster
  3. nouveau riche: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. nouveau riche: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. nouveau riche: Collins English Dictionary
  6. nouveau-riche: Vocabulary.com
  7. nouveau-riche, nouveau riche: Wordnik
  8. nouveau riche, the nouveau riche: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. nouveau riche: Wiktionary
  10. nouveau riche: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. nouveau riche: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. nouveau-riche, nouveau riche: Dictionary.com
  13. nouveau riche: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Nouveau Riche (Swedish band), Nouveau Riche (college), Nouveau Riche (disambiguation), Nouveau-riche, Nouveau riche: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. nouveau-riche: Rhymezone
  16. nouveau-riche, nouveau riche: FreeDictionary.org
  17. nouveau-riche: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. nouveau-riche, nouveau riche: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. nouveau-riche, nouveau riche: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. the nouveau riche: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. nouveau riche: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See nouveaux_riches as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (nouveau riche)

noun:  (derogatory) New money; wealthy persons whose fortunes are newly acquired, and who are therefore perceived to lack the refinement of those who were raised wealthy.
adjective:  Newly rich; like a nouveau riche.

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