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WEALTHY MAN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does wealthy man mean?
• WEALTHY MAN (noun)
The noun WEALTHY MAN has 1 sense:
1. a man who is wealthy
Familiarity information: WEALTHY MAN used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A man who is wealthy
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
man of means; rich man; wealthy man
Hypernyms ("wealthy 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 "wealthy 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 remember her aunt very well, Biddy Henshawe; she married a very wealthy man.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Everywhere there were mingled the luxury of the wealthy man of taste and the careless untidiness of the bachelor.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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