RICH PEOPLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rich people mean? 

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

1. people who have possessions and wealth (considered as a group)

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• RICH PEOPLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

People who have possessions and wealth (considered as a group)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

rich; rich people

Context example:

only the very rich benefit from this legislation

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

people ((plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively)

Domain usage:

plural; plural form (the form of a word that is used to denote more than one)

Antonym:

poor people (people without possessions or wealth (considered as a group))

 Context examples 

Rich people's children often need care and comfort, as well as poor.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

You are very fond of bending little minds; but where little minds belong to rich people in authority, I think they have a knack of swelling out, till they are quite as unmanageable as great ones.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Rich people have no right to sit down and enjoy themselves, or let their money accumulate for others to waste.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I don't envy her much, in spite of her money, for after all rich people have about as many worries as poor ones, I think, added Jo.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

One discovered that money couldn't keep shame and sorrow out of rich people's houses, another that, though she was poor, she was a great deal happier, with her youth, health, and good spirits, than a certain fretful, feeble old lady who couldn't enjoy her comforts, a third that, disagreeable as it was to help get dinner, it was harder still to go begging for it and the fourth, that even carnelian rings were not so valuable as good behavior.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I didn't hear it. I imagined it. A lot of these newly rich people are just big bootleggers, you know.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)