About The Word Parvenu

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Parvenu

Parvenu Meaning & Definition
Parvenu Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Parvenu?

[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

Synonyms | Synonyms for Parvenu: new | nouveau-riche | nouveau-riche | parvenue | pretentious | upstart | upstart(a)

Related Terms | Find terms related to Parvenu: 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

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

Parvenu In Webster's Dictionary

\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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