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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
old money
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Most members of the Cleveland Country Club come from old money.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Everywhere in public life, old families, old money and titles have been in decline, while business has advanced.
▪ He believes that old money is better than new money.
▪ That pleased the smart set, but secretly the old money decided it was a bit tacky.
▪ The preferred drug of old money, and, by extension, of the nouveau mob.
▪ We witnessed Florida new and old money giving a new meaning to dressing up.
▪ What fosters the Terrells' sizable contributions to public life is money, old money and vast money.
Wiktionary
old money

n. 1 (context idiomatic English) Families that have been wealthy for generations or members of such families. 2 (context British English) The monetary system used in the United Kingdom before decimalisation (1971) and consisting of pounds, shillings, pence and farthings. 3 (context humorous English) The imperial system of measurement, as opposed to the metric system.

WordNet
old money

n. 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" [syn: silver spoon]

Wikipedia
Old money

Old money (sometimes referred to as Family Cash or Family Money) is "the inherited wealth of established upper-class families (i.e. gentry, patriciate)" or "a person, family, or lineage possessing inherited wealth". The term typically describes a class of the rich who have been able to maintain their wealth over multiple generations, often referring to perceived members of the de facto aristocracy in societies that historically lack an officially established aristocratic class (such as the US).

Old Money (The Simpsons)

"Old Money" is the seventeenth episode of The Simpsons' second season. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on March 28, 1991. In the episode, Grampa's wealthy girlfriend at the Retirement Castle passes away and leaves him with $106,000. He heads for a casino to spend the money, but is stopped by Homer, so he decides to spend the inheritance money on renovating the retirement home instead.

The episode was written by Jay Kogen and Wallace Wolodarsky and directed by David Silverman. Audrey Meadows guest starred in it as Beatrice "Bea" Simmons, Grampa's new girlfriend. Professor Frink also makes his debut in the episode. It features cultural references to films such as Tom Jones and If I Had a Million, and the Star Wars and Batman film franchises. Since airing, the episode has received mixed reviews from television critics. It acquired a Nielsen rating of 12.3, and was the highest-rated show on the Fox network the week it aired.

Old money (disambiguation)

Old money is "the inherited wealth of established upper-class families (i.e. gentry, patriciate)" or "a person, family, or lineage possessing inherited wealth."

  • It can also refer to the pre-decimal coinage of the British Empire.

Old Money may also refer to:

Old Money (album)

Old Money is a studio album by Omar Rodríguez-López released by Stones Throw Records in November 2008, and is the musician's first album on that label. Rodríguez-López explained that the album is "loosely based on the concept of exploitative industrialists and, well, their old money." Stones Throw Records released the vinyl version of the album on February 6, 2009.

Rodriguez-Lopez has hinted that this record was a potential follow up to the 2006 The Mars Volta studio album Amputechture until he changed his musical direction. Many songs share similarities with previous Mars Volta live jams.

Review aggregate site Metacritic calculates a score of 70/100 for the album, but erroneously referred to it as "The debut album for the Mars Volta guitarist".

In the song "I Like Rockefellers' First Two Albums, But After That...", there is a dialog from the movie El Topo, from Chilean director Alejandro Jodorowsky.

Old Money (play)

Old Money is a play written by Wendy Wasserstein. The play is "a comedy of manners, one that examines the theme of materialism."

Old Money (Lana Del Rey song)

"Old Money" is a song by American recording artist by Lana Del Rey taken from her third studio album, Ultraviolence (2014). It was written by Del Rey and producer Dan Heath.

Usage examples of "old money".

Everyone else in the room was in the casual garb of rich people on holiday-a range that ran from the garish display of the self-made to the tastefully drab leisurewear affected by Old Money.

Farmer Cathcart, heir to an East Coast railroad dynasty, San Labrador looked like old money but had been chartered as a city for only fifty years.

Til represents old money, shipyards, and land-based mercantile interests in general, while Kam represents the labor groups and the actual sailing community.

Greenwich boasted none of London's stink, smelling instead of fresh marshes and late-autumn hay and old money.

But the old money stayed, determined to be elegant, even if it kills them.