Parvenu \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.
[1913 Webster] Parvis
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
parvenu
adj 1: characteristic of someone who has risen economically or
socially but lacks the social skills appropriate for
this new position [syn: nouveau-riche, parvenue, upstart(a)]
2: of or characteristic of a parvenu [syn: parvenue]
n : a person who has suddenly risen to a higher economic status
but has not gained social acceptance of others in that
class [syn: upstart, nouveau-riche, arriviste]
WordNet (r) 2.0
98 Moby Thesaurus words for "parvenu":
Babbitt, Daddy Warbucks, Philistine, Young Turk, adventurer,
arriviste, billionaire, bloated plutocrat, boor, bounder,
bourgeois, bourgeois gentilhomme, bright young man, cad,
capitalist, churl, clown, comer, 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,
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
arriviste, nouveau-riche, parvenue, upstart, upstart(a)
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