Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Wealthy and noble; affluent and high-status: Describes a person or family possessing substantial material riches and enjoying a correspondingly elevated, luxurious, and prestigious social position. It combines the concepts of wealth ("giàu") and nobility/refinement ("sang").
   • Opulent: Characterized by great wealth and lavish, luxurious living.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • Gia đình ấy sống rất giàu sang. (That family lives very opulently / in great wealth and nobility.)
  • Anh ấy không chỉ giàu có mà còn rất sang trọng, đúng là bậc giàu sang. (He is not only rich but also very refined, truly a person of wealth and high status.)
  • Giàu sang mà tham lam, nghèo khó nhưng hào phóng. (Wealthy and noble but covetous, poor and needy but generous.)

Advanced Usage

• The term is often used to describe an ideal or aspirational state of being that encompasses both material abundance and social prestige. It implies a stable, inherited, or long-established condition rather than merely new money.

Variants and Related Words

• Giàu có (adj): Rich, wealthy. Focuses primarily on material possessions.

  • Ông ấy là một doanh nhân giàu có. (He is a wealthy businessman.)

• Sang trọng (adj): Classy, luxurious, refined. Focuses on elegance, taste, and high social standing.

  • Khách sạn này rất sang trọng. (This hotel is very luxurious.)

Synonyms

• Affluent: Having a great deal of money.
• Opulent: Ostentatiously rich and luxurious.
• Wealthy and high-born: Having wealth and noble status.

Related Idioms and Phrases

• Phú quý giàu sang: A reinforcing phrase meaning great wealth, riches, and honor.

  • Họ đạt được phú quý giàu sang nhờ kinh doanh. (They attained great wealth and honor through business.)

• Giàu sang phú quý: Similar to above, a common four-word idiom denoting complete prosperity, combining wealth, status, and abundance.

  • Mong ước một đời giàu sang phú quý. (To wish for a lifetime of wealth and high status.)

1. High and rich
   • Giàu sang mà tham lam, nghèo khó nhưng hào phóng
     High and rich but covetous, low and poor but liberal ; poor and liberal, rich and covetous