Old Money Definition

noun
Wealth acquired long ago and passed down through the generations, often regarded as conferring privileged status.
Webster's New World
The inherited wealth of established upper-class families.
American Heritage
A person, family, etc. possessing such wealth.
Webster's New World

(UK) The monetary system used in the United Kingdom before decimalisation (1971) and consisting of pounds, shillings, pence and farthings.

Wiktionary
(humorous) The imperial system of measurement, as opposed to the metric system.
These scales say I weigh 72 kilograms; what's that in old money?
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Old Money Sentence Examples

  • The north shore of Long Island, the "Gold Coast" has been the bastion of old money since the days of the 19th century industrialists.

  • Hannah had succeeded in landing a big fish blueblood, a descendant of Italian royalty, whose old money placated the chilly welcome she received into a lifestyle far, far different from her own.

  • In the first movie, Elle Woods (Witherspoon) was desperate to wear the pear shaped, large carat heirloom ring from Harry Winston that her old money boyfriend, Warner, had received from his grandmother.

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