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Rothschild

//ˈɹɒθs.t͡ʃaɪld// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname from German.

    "A modern glass edifice nearby houses the headquarters of the illustrious Rothschild banking family. It was the Rothschilds who in the 1830s arranged that recently paid-off £20 million loan to the British government to reimburse slaveowners after the trade ended – said to be equivalent to some £300 billion in today’s money."

Noun
  1. 1
    A very rich person.

Etymology

Etymology 1

Borrowed from German Rothschild (literally “red shield”) with a spelling pronunciation (as though equivalent to English Roth's child).

Etymology 2

From the Rothschild family.

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