Rockefeller
Standard Oil founder
Rockefeller is a surname associated with extraordinary wealth, from the American oil dynasty founded by John D.
Rockefeller in the late 19th century.
The name functions as shorthand for vast riches: He's no Rockefeller, but he does all right.
Rockefeller Center is the famous New York City complex; a Rockefeller Republican is a moderate, business-friendly conservative.
Wealth or destiny
- billionairePerson worth ten figures
- richesAbundant valuable possessions
- opulenceShowy, abundant prosperity
- affluenceAbundance of money
prosperity · assets · estate · inheritance · millionaire · richest · titan · plutocrat
Natural underground hydrocarbon liquid
- refineryIndustrial purification facility
- monopolyOne seller, no substitutes
- keroseneFlammable petroleum distillate
- pipelineLong-distance fluid transport tube
drilling · barrel · crude · trust · cartel · Cleveland · price-fixing · antitrust
Energy transfer rate
- monopolyOne seller, no substitutes
- trustConfidence in another
- dominanceSuperior influence over others
- controlAuthority to direct
muckraker · consolidation · clout · leverage · hegemony
Underlying support structure
- endowmentPermanent donated fund
- charityVoluntary aid for others
- benefactorOne who gives aid
- donationVoluntary charitable gift
grantmaking · giving · patronage · scholarship · legacy · Spelman · altruism · generosity
fortune
Wealth or destiny
- billionairePerson worth ten figures
- richesAbundant valuable possessions
- opulenceShowy, abundant prosperity
affluence · prosperity · assets · estate · inheritance · millionaire · richest · titan · plutocrat · moneyed
petroleum
Natural underground hydrocarbon liquid
- refineryIndustrial purification facility
- monopolyOne seller, no substitutes
- keroseneFlammable petroleum distillate
pipeline · drilling · barrel · crude · trust · cartel · Cleveland · price-fixing · antitrust · breakup
power
Energy transfer rate
control · muckraker · consolidation · clout · leverage · hegemony
foundation
Underlying support structure
- endowmentPermanent donated fund
- charityVoluntary aid for others
- benefactorOne who gives aid
donation · grantmaking · giving · patronage · scholarship · legacy · Spelman · altruism · generosity · nonprofit
Center
Named institutional venue
family
Related people together
- heritageInherited cultural legacy
- lineageDescent from progenitors
- descendantsThose who come after
Junior · David · Nelson · genealogy · ancestry · clan · forebears · progenitors · kinship · bloodline
- 1800s FiguresDarwin, Marx, Dickens, Beethoven, Napoleon
- Gilded Age AmericansAndrew Carnegie, Carnegie, Cornelius Vanderbilt, J.P. Morgan, JP Morgan
- Gilded Age FiguresCarnegie, Vanderbilt, J.P. Morgan, Frick, Huntington
- 1800s AmericaOregon Trail, Trail of Tears, transcontinental railroad, Civil War, Abraham Lincoln
- industrializationfactory, industrial revolution, Industrial Revolution, factories, manufacturing
- petroleumcrude oil, crude, petroleum, oil wells, oil fields
Rockefellerpauper
Person in extreme poverty
beggar · destitute · poor · impoverished · working poor
RockefellerMother Jones
Labor movement icon
Samuel Gompers · working class · proletariat · Woody Guthrie · the masses
RockefellerTeddy Roosevelt
Twenty-sixth American president
Ida Tarbell · muckraker · Ralph Nader · FTC
- Rockefeller familyProminent American plutocratic lineage
- Rockefeller CenterManhattan office and entertainment complex
- John D. Rockefeller
- John RockefellerPetroleum industry monopolist
- oysters RockefellerBaked shellfish with herb topping
rock, rocks, rocky, rockier, rockiest, rocked, rocking, rocker, rockers