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well-heeled Definition

well·-heeled (welhēld)

adjective

Slang rich; prosperous

well-heeled Usage Examples

Modifies a noun

  • visitor: Suitability: Sophisticated and expensive, it attracts a high proportion of well-heeled visitors from USA, Japan and Europe.
  • tourist: In the West, the country is known mostly for its desert island beauty that attracts more than 300,000 well-heeled tourists a year.
  • resident: In its heyday, the bonde took the well-heeled residents from their fine Portuguese colonial-style mansions to work in the Centro district below.
  • customer: But efforts to bring back the more well-heeled customer have been mixed.
  • woman: There have been several well-heeled women with flats to rent on its books.
  • family: Being from a well-heeled family, Orson went to the Todd Seminary for Boys, which had a fully equipped theater.

Modifying Another Word

  • only: Entry-level recreational fun from Volkswagen starts from £ 34,000, so only well-heeled former hippies need apply.