Rockefellers
American industrial magnates
The Rockefellers are members of the American dynasty founded by John D.
Rockefeller, who built Standard Oil into the world's largest oil refinery and became the wealthiest American of his era.
The family name has become shorthand for extreme wealth and industrial power: They live like Rockefellers.
Used with the article, the Rockefellers suggests old money and establishment influence, distinct from nouveau riche fortunes.
Historic petroleum monopoly
- petroleumNatural underground hydrocarbon liquid
- monopolyOne seller, no substitutes
- refineryIndustrial purification facility
- keroseneFlammable petroleum distillate
drilling · pipeline · trust · crude · barrel · tycoon · industrialist · vertical integration
Wealth or destiny
- billionairePerson worth ten figures
- mogulInfluential industry leader
- tycoonDominant industrial leader
- magnateWealthy business leader
capital · assets · estate · holdings · affluence · opulence · riches · plutocracy
Underlying support structure
- endowmentPermanent donated fund
- grantmakingDistributing charitable funds
- benefactorOne who gives aid
- donationVoluntary charitable gift
University of Chicago · Spelman · charitable trust · medical research · public health · education funding · arts patronage · conservation
Descent from progenitors
- heritageInherited cultural legacy
- bloodlineAncestry through generations
- successionFollowing in order
- clanRelated group sharing ancestry
house · scions · heirs · patriarchy · legacy · founding family · generational · aristocracy
Energy transfer rate
- lobbyingAdvocating to decision-makers
- policyAdopted principle of action
- eliteSuperior select group
- establishmentFounded organization or venue
networking · shaping · dominance · authority · leverage · banking · Wall Street · governance
Standard Oil
Historic petroleum monopoly
- petroleumNatural underground hydrocarbon liquid
- monopolyOne seller, no substitutes
- refineryIndustrial purification facility
kerosene · drilling · pipeline · trust · crude · barrel · tycoon · industrialist · vertical integration · antitrust
fortune
Wealth or destiny
- billionairePerson worth ten figures
- mogulInfluential industry leader
- tycoonDominant industrial leader
magnate · capital · assets · estate · holdings · affluence · opulence · riches · plutocracy · gilded age
foundation
Underlying support structure
- endowmentPermanent donated fund
- grantmakingDistributing charitable funds
- benefactorOne who gives aid
donation · University of Chicago · Spelman · charitable trust · medical research · public health · education funding · arts patronage · conservation · national parks
lineage
Descent from progenitors
- heritageInherited cultural legacy
- bloodlineAncestry through generations
- successionFollowing in order
clan · house · scions · heirs · patriarchy · legacy · founding family · generational · aristocracy · prominence
power
Energy transfer rate
establishment · networking · shaping · dominance · authority · leverage · banking · Wall Street · governance · advisory
- Famous FamiliesKennedys, Rothschilds, Bushes, Vanderbilts, Adamses
- Wealthy dynastiesVanderbilts, Rothschilds, Fords, Marriotts, Johnsons
- tycoonsoil tycoon, tycoons, railroad tycoon, magnates, moguls
- Banking DynastiesRothschilds, J.P. Morgan, Childs, banking empire, merchant bankers
- eliteelite, elites, aristocrats, nobility, best
- Hudson ValleyHudson River, Hudson River School, Henry Hudson, Kingston, Poughkeepsie
Rockefellersthe poor
paupers · nobodies · the masses · common folk · sharecroppers
Rockefellersnew money
Self-earned, not inherited wealth
bootstrappers · Oprah Winfrey · self-starters · Andrew Carnegie · parvenus
Rockefellersthe proletariat
Wage-earning labor class
the working class · laborers · factory workers · coal miners · wage earners
- Rockefeller familyProminent American plutocratic lineage
- Rockefeller CenterManhattan office and entertainment complex
- John D. Rockefeller
- John RockefellerPetroleum industry monopolist
- oysters RockefellerBaked shellfish with herb topping