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rich kid

rich kid

36 2.7
A child or young person from a family that has a lot of money
  • noun
  • /rɪtʃ kɪd/
translation icon : niño rico
  • I grew up with a lot of rich kids whose families owned luxury cars and large houses.
  • a spoiled rich kid
  • spoiled rich kids
  • rich kids born into money

And some of these rich kids were like super rich.

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Examples

  • My high school also had a few rich kids with doting parents.

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  • To be on the same level as these rich kids.

  • I know a lot of rich kids in New York.

  • These are really sort of like very rich kids or parents of these kids.

  • And some of these rich kids were like super rich.

  • I worked at a day camp, which was like, for like super rich kids, and I taught them how to swim.

  • See there are disadvantages to being a rich kid too.

  • And it was about rich kids and some poor kids that all went to school together in Beverly Hills.

  • A lot of them were just spoiled little rich kids who didn't know how lucky they had it.

  • Do you ever think college was just a four-year networking camp for rich kids and that the degree doesn't actually mean anything?

Antonyms

8 1.0

A person who has very little money and few things

How Wealthy

rich kid
36 2.7
affluent
1 6.0
well-off
33 3.4
middle-class
201 3.2
working-class
56 3.4
poor person
8 1.0

Surface Forms

rich kid singular
rich kids plural

Morphology

rich + kid

The meaning 'a child from a wealthy family' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'rich' (wealthy) with 'kid' (a young person). This simple adjective + noun composition follows normal English composition patterns and is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand it.

Etymology

Rich kid comes from the simple picture of a kid who is rich, shown with fancy clothes, new gadgets, or a big house. So it is used to mean a 'child from a wealthy family'.