高こう等とう遊ゆう民みん

noun

educated loafer; leisured intellectual; idle rich

Dated term for a well-educated person who does not work and lives off family wealth, often with a critical or ironic tone. Associated with early 20th-century Japan.

• 彼かれは大だい学がくを出でた後あと、就しゅう職しょくせずに高こう等とう遊ゆう民みんのような生せい活かつを送おくっていた。

  After graduating from university, he lived like an educated loafer without getting a job.

• 夏なつ目め漱そう石せきの小しょう説せつには高こう等とう遊ゆう民みん的てきな人じん物ぶつがよく登とう場じょうする。

  Characters resembling leisured intellectuals often appear in Natsume Soseki's novels.