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Definition of Parvenu
1. Adjective. Characteristic of someone who has risen economically or socially but lacks the social skills appropriate for this new position.
Similar to: Pretentious
Derivative terms: Nouveau-riche
2. Noun. A person who has suddenly risen to a higher economic status but has not gained social acceptance of others in that class.
Generic synonyms: Disagreeable Person, Unpleasant Person
Specialized synonyms: Climber, Social Climber, Junior
Derivative terms: Nouveau-riche
3. Adjective. Of or characteristic of a parvenu.
Definition of Parvenu
1. n. An upstart; a man newly risen into notice.
Definition of Parvenu
1. Noun. A person who has risen, climbed up, or has been promoted to a higher social class, especially through acquisition of wealth, rights, or political authority but has not gained social acceptance by those within that new class. ¹
2. Adjective. Being a parvenu; also, like or having the characteristics of a parvenu. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Parvenu
1. one who has suddenly risen above his class [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Parvenu
Literary usage of Parvenu
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1854)
"parvenu. Ah ! Let us omit censure. How much more pleasant to speak in ... parvenu.
To re-arrangements at home, calculated to conduce to many such triumphs. ..."
2. Israel Among the Nations: A Study of the Jews and Antisemitism by Anatole Leroy-Beaulieu, Frances Hellman (1895)
"As Regards Character also, the Jew is Tending towards a Transformation—parvenu
Traits among the Jews—The Degradation of the Race by no Means Irretrievable. ..."
3. The Antiquary (1873)
"... greatest skill and dispatch in the noble art of slaughter and extermination,
commend me to some of the armies of civilized Europe." " KING. A parvenu . ..."
4. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1911)
"The parvenu naturally received more attention than the two men of letters,—which
moved ... He has ostensibly referred only to the age of the parvenu; ..."
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