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Definition/Meaning

(adjective)

part of the aristocrats in society with influence and wealth;

e.g. They needed a silk-stocking on their side to help as an endorsement for their products.

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Similar Words

Advantaged

Affluent

Aristocratic

Capitalist

Croesus

Fat

Fat cat

Flush

Genteel

Gentle

Grand

Great

Have

Highborn

Highbred

Loaded

Money

Moneybags

Moneyed

Monied

Noble

Opulent

Patrician

Propertied

Rich

Upper

Upper crust

Upper-class

Wealthy

Well-heeled

Well-off

Well-to-do

Wellborn

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Opposite Words

Bankrupt

Bastard

Beggar

Broke

Cash-strapped

Degraded

Deprived

Destitute

Disadvantaged

Dispossessed

Hand-to-mouth

Illegitimate

Impecunious

Impoverished

Indebted

Indigent

Inferior

Insolvent

Junior

Knavish

Needy

Penniless

Penurious

Plain

Poor

Poverty-stricken

Subordinate

Underprivileged

Ungenteel

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Related Words

Advantaged

Blessed

Comfortable

Elevated

Exalted

Flourishing

High

High-level

Kingly

Ladylike

Lofty

Lordly

Moneymaker

Princely

Privileged

Propertied

Prosperous

Queenly

Regal

Royal

Senior

Substantial

Successful

Superior

Thriving

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