giàu sang
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Definition
- 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.)
- High and rich
- Giàu sang mà tham lam, nghèo khó nhưng hào phóngHigh and rich but covetous, low and poor but liberal ; poor and liberal, rich and covetous