Meaning of PARVENU
| Pronunciation: | | 'pârvu`noo
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- [n] a person who has suddenly risen to a higher economic status but has not gained social acceptance of others in that class
- [adj] of or characteristic of a parvenu
- [adj] characteristic of someone who has risen economically or socially but lacks the social skills appropriate for this new position
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| | Synonyms: | | new, nouveau-riche, nouveau-riche, parvenue, pretentious, upstart, upstart(a) |
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| | See Also: | | climber, disagreeable person, junior, social climber, unpleasant person | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Par"ve*nu`\, n. [F., prop. p. p. of parvenir to attain
to, to succeed, to rise to high station, L. pervenire to come
to; per through + venire to come. See {Par}, prep., and
{Come}.]
An upstart; a man newly risen into notice.
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| | Related Terms: | | adventurer, arriviste, Babbitt, billionaire, bloated plutocrat, boor, bounder, bourgeois, bourgeois gentilhomme, bright young man, cad, capitalist, churl, clown, comer, Daddy Warbucks, emigrant, epicier, fat cat, fledgling, gate-crasher, greenhorn, groundling, guttersnipe, hooligan, ill-bred fellow, immigrant, intruder, intrusive, looby, lout, low fellow, man of means, man of substance, man of wealth, millionaire, modern, modern generation, modern man, modernist, modernizer, moneybags, moneyed man, mucker, multimillionaire, mushroom, nabob, name-dropper, neologism, neologist, neology, neonate, neoteric, neoterism, neoterist, new arrival, new boy, new generation, new man, newcomer, newly-rich, nouveau riche, nouveau roturier, nouveau-riche, novus homo, parvenue, peasant, Philistine, pig in clover, plutocrat, recruit, ribald, rich man, richling, rising generation, rookie, roturier, rough, roughneck, rowdy, ruffian, settler, social climber, sprout, squatter, status seeker, stowaway, stripling, tenderfoot, tufthunter, upstart, vulgarian, vulgarist, warm man, wealthy man, would-be gentleman, yokel, Young Turk |
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