'Parvenu' definitions:
Definition of 'parvenu'
From: WordNet
adjective
Characteristic of someone who has risen economically or socially but lacks the social skills appropriate for this new position [syn: nouveau-riche, parvenu, parvenue, upstart(a)]
adjective
Of or characteristic of a parvenu [syn: parvenu, parvenue]
noun
A person who has suddenly risen to a higher economic status but has not gained social acceptance of others in that class [syn: upstart, parvenu, nouveau-riche, arriviste]
Definition of 'Parvenu'
From: GCIDE
Synonyms of 'parvenu'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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