Rothschilds

1. A family of European financiers and bankers active since the eighteenth century. The Rothschilds had spectacular success in governmental finance in the nineteenth century, supporting, for example, the British against the French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte . The family is spread through several nations to this day.

Example Sentences

The Rockefellers and Rothschilds have nothing on the new money elite in China, Singapore, and elsewhere in Asia.

From The Daily Beast

It would be as absurd to accuse me of anti-Semitism for alluding to the fact that the Rothschilds or Warburgs were Jews.

From The Daily Beast

But Gaddafi's veneer of softening, painted mostly through his son, Saif, friend to the Rothschilds and Benjamin Barber, failed.

From The Daily Beast

And to hear these creatures talk, why, you'd think they were Astors or Rothschilds.

From Project Gutenberg

This city is the original home of the Rothschilds, the great bankers, upon whom even princes wait—when they are short of money.

From Project Gutenberg

The Hohenzollern are as unique in the history of royalty as the Rothschilds are unique in the history of finance.

From Project Gutenberg

They say the Rothschilds can not tell how much they are worth; and that is just my case.

From Project Gutenberg

I don't think I ever met a richer man; he was richer than the whole family of the Rothschilds; he wanted scarcely anything.

From Project Gutenberg