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RICH MAN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A man who is wealthy
Synonyms:
man of means; rich man; wealthy man
Classified under:
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:
Long, long ago, some two thousand years or so, there lived a rich man with a good and beautiful wife.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
"No, you won't. You hate hard work, and you'll marry some rich man, and come home to sit in the lap of luxury all your days," said Jo.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
He is a rich man.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Twenty years ago, a poor curate—never mind his name at this moment—fell in love with a rich man's daughter; she fell in love with him, and married him, against the advice of all her friends, who consequently disowned her immediately after the wedding.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
The wife of a rich man fell sick; and when she felt that her end drew nigh, she called her only daughter to her bed-side, and said, Always be a good girl, and I will look down from heaven and watch over you.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
I’ll begin at the time of my marriage last year, but I want to say first of all that, though I’m not a rich man, my people have been at Riding Thorpe for a matter of five centuries, and there is no better known family in the County of Norfolk.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Thus from being a rich man he became all at once so very poor that nothing was left to him but one small plot of land; and there he often went in an evening to take his walk, and ease his mind of a little of his trouble.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
