parvenu









parvenu


noun

  1. a person who has recently or suddenly acquired wealth, importance, position, or the like, but has not yet developed the conventionally appropriate manners, dress, surroundings, etc.

adjective

  1. being or resembling a parvenu.
  2. characteristic of a parvenu.

noun

  1. a person, esp a man, who, having risen socially or economically, is considered to be an upstart or to lack the appropriate refinement for his or her new position

adjective

  1. of or characteristic of a parvenu

n.“upstart,” 1802, from French parvenu, “said of an obscure person who has made a great fortune” (Littré); noun use of past participle of parvenir “to arrive” (12c.), from Latin pervenire “to come up, arrive, attain,” from per- “through” (see per (prep.)) + venire “to come” (see venue). As an adjective from 1828.

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