silver spoon

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”

   Synonymsold money

   Broaderinherited wealth

Questions about silver spoon

What does silver spoon mean?

silver spoon means "the inherited wealth of established upper-class families".

What is another word for silver spoon?

Close synonyms include old money. 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 silver spoon a common word?

silver spoon is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.