Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- German family of bankers, including Mayer Amschal (1744–1812), who founded a bank at Frankfurt am Main. His sons, most notably Salomon Mayer (1774–1855) and Nathan Mayer (1777–1836), established branches of the bank throughout Europe.
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- noun A very rich person.
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- noun any of family of powerful Jewish bankers in Europe
Etymologies
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Examples
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ROTHSCHILD - Police have taken a 23-year-old man into custody this morning five hours after they first arrived at a Rothschild apartment.
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The name Rothschild means, roughly, in German, "red shield" – historians speculate that a red shield may have hung at the gate of the family house in Frankfurt.
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While most of the bad brothers in Rothschild JHS 294 in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn were wearing bold and bright striped Sinbad sweaters and gaudy neon sharkskin slacks, Alonzo's style was quietly, but obviously also expensively, non-flashy ... mostly subdued charcoal grays and muted browns and beiges.
Binky Philips: Sam & Dave Take Me to School, 1968 Binky Philips 2010
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This is one of the most powerful moments in Rothschild's diaries.
Gordon Brown to aides on eve of election defeat: I really am sorry Nicholas Watt 2010
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Evelyn Rothschild is a man of many propaganda-hats.
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Currently, Nathaniel Rothschild is an executive (what else would he be?) with Gleacher Partners, a New York-based mergers and acquisitions (M&A) advisory firm founded by Eric Gleacher, former head of M&A at another Jewish sister bank of the Rothschilds, Lehman Brothers.
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While we continue to know the name Rothschild, the great Ashkenazi banking family whose financial enterprises dominated Europe and the rest of the world, the name of Montefiore and the huge amount of work he did on behalf of his co-religionists has been largely forgotten.
David Shasha: Moses Montefiore: The Most Important Jew of the 19th Century 2010
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Evelyn Rothschild is a man of many propaganda-hats.
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Chateau Mouton Rothschild is a series of French wines dating back to 1945 with wine labels done by famous artists.
November 2008 2008
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Currently, Nathaniel Rothschild is an executive (what else would he be?) with Gleacher Partners, a New York-based mergers and acquisitions (M&A) advisory firm founded by Eric Gleacher, former head of M&A at another Jewish sister bank of the Rothschilds, Lehman Brothers.
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