old money

1. 1.

   the inherited wealth of established upper-class families

   “he was born with a silver spoon in his mouth”

   “she is the daughter of old money from Massachusetts”

   Synonymssilver spoon

   Broaderinherited wealth

Questions about old money

What does old money mean?

old money means "the inherited wealth of established upper-class families".

What is another word for old money?

Close synonyms include silver spoon. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is old money a common word?

old money is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.