SILVER SPOON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does silver spoon mean? 

• SILVER SPOON (noun)
  The noun SILVER SPOON has 1 sense:

1. the inherited wealth of established upper-class families

  Familiarity information: SILVER SPOON used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SILVER SPOON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The inherited wealth of established upper-class families

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

old money; silver spoon

Context example:

she is the daughter of old money from Massachusetts

Hypernyms ("silver spoon" is a kind of...):

inherited wealth (wealth that is inherited rather than earned)

 Context examples 

It completely conveyed the idea of a man who had been born, not to say with a silver spoon, but with a scaling-ladder, and had gone on mounting all the heights of life one after another, until now he looked, from the top of the fortifications, with the eye of a philosopher and a patron, on the people down in the trenches.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)