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ROTHSCHILD

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Overview

ROTHSCHILD (noun)
  The noun ROTHSCHILD has 1 sense:

1. any of family of powerful Jewish bankers in Europeplay

  Familiarity information: ROTHSCHILD used as a noun is very rare.


English dictionary: Word details


ROTHSCHILD (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of family of powerful Jewish bankers in Europe

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

banker (a financier who owns or is an executive in a bank)


 Context examples 


Baron Rothschild's private secretary, a large-nosed Jew in tight boots, affably beamed upon the world, as if his master's name crowned him with a golden halo.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)



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