RICH MAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rich man mean? 

• RICH MAN (noun)
  The noun RICH MAN has 1 sense:

1. a man who is wealthy

  Familiarity information: RICH MAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RICH MAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A man who is wealthy

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

man of means; rich man; wealthy man

Hypernyms ("rich man" is a kind of...):

have; rich person; wealthy person (a person who possesses great material wealth)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rich man"):

nabob (a wealthy man (especially one who made his fortune in the Orient))

nob; toff (informal term for an upper-class or wealthy person)

 Context examples 

I am not a rich man, but if there is any danger threatening my little woman, I would spend my last copper to shield her.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And I have no doubt that he will thrive, and be a very rich man in time—and his being illiterate and coarse need not disturb us.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

A few good cases and the reputation which I had won in the hospital brought me rapidly to the front, and during the last few years I have made him a rich man.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then the entire village was dead, and the small peasant, as sole heir, became a rich man.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

“You see, Mr. Holmes,” said he, “my wife was twenty before her father became a rich man.”

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There is ever some cursed sheepskin in their strong boxes to prove that the rich man should be richer and the poor man poorer.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"Hadn't you rather have her marry a rich man?" asked Jo, as her mother's voice faltered a little over the last words.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Her salary will be thirty pounds a year: her house is already furnished, very simply, but sufficiently, by the kindness of a lady, Miss Oliver; the only daughter of the sole rich man in my parish—Mr. Oliver, the proprietor of a needle- factory and iron-foundry in the valley.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Therefore since money alone was able to perform all these feats, our Yahoos thought they could never have enough of it to spend, or to save, as they found themselves inclined, from their natural bent either to profusion or avarice; that the rich man enjoyed the fruit of the poor man’s labour, and the latter were a thousand to one in proportion to the former; that the bulk of our people were forced to live miserably, by labouring every day for small wages, to make a few live plentifully.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

I have never been a very rich man, Mr. Holmes—never made but one investment in my life, as Dr. Trevelyan would tell you.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)