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Nouveau-riche

Nouveau-riche Meaning & Definition
Nouveau-riche Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Nouveau-riche?

[n] a person who has suddenly risen to a higher economic status but has not gained social acceptance of others in that class
[adj] characteristic of someone who has risen economically or socially but lacks the social skills appropriate for this new position

Synonyms | Synonyms for Nouveau-riche: parvenu | parvenu | parvenue | pretentious | upstart | upstart(a)

Related Terms | Find terms related to Nouveau-riche: adventurer | arriviste | Babbitt | boor | bounder | bourgeois | bourgeois gentilhomme | bright young man | cad | churl | clown | comer | epicier | fledgling | groundling | guttersnipe | hooligan | ill-bred fellow | looby | lout | low fellow | modern | modern generation | modern man | modernist | modernizer | mucker | mushroom | name-dropper | neologism | neologist | neology | neonate | neoteric | neoterism | neoterist | new generation | new man | newly-rich | nouveau roturier | novus homo | parvenu | peasant | Philistine | pig in clover | ribald | rising generation | roturier | rough | roughneck | rowdy | ruffian | social climber | sprout | status seeker | stripling | tufthunter | upstart | vulgarian | vulgarist | would-be gentleman | yokel | Young Turk

See Also | climber | disagreeable person | junior | social climber | unpleasant person

Nouveau-riche In Webster's Dictionary

\Nou`veau" riche"\, m., Nouvelle riche \Nou`velle"

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