parvenu

parvenu
Synonyms and related words:
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

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  • parvenu — parvenu, ue [ parvəny ] adj. et n. • 1690; de parvenir ♦ Qui a atteint rapidement une importante situation sociale, sans en acquérir les manières, le ton, le savoir vivre. « Le paysan parvenu », roman de Marivaux. « Les épaves de la noblesse sont …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • parvenu — parvenu, ue (par ve nu, nue) part. passé de parvenir. 1°   Parvenu au haut de la colline. Parvenu au faîte des honneurs. •   Déjà jusqu à mon coeur le venin parvenu Dans ce coeur expirant jette un froid inconnu, RAC. Phèdre, V, 7. 2°   Il se dit… …   Dictionnaire de la Langue Française d'Émile Littré

  • Parvenü — Sm Aufsteiger, Neureicher erw. obs. (18. Jh.) Entlehnung. Entlehnt aus frz. parvenu(e), einer Substantivierung von frz. parvenir hinkommen, gelangen , aus l. pervenīre, zu l. venīre kommen und l. per , also eigentlich der Hinzugekommene .… …   Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen sprache

  • parvenu — [pär′və no͞o΄, pär′vənyo͞o΄] n. [Fr, pp. of parvenir < L pervenire, to arrive < per, through (see PER1) + venire, COME] a person who has suddenly acquired wealth or power, esp. one who is not fully accepted socially by the class associated… …   English World dictionary

  • parvenu — (n.) upstart, 1802, from Fr. parvenu, said of an obscure person who has made a great fortune, noun use of pp. of parvenir to arrive, from L. pervenire, from per through + venire to come (see VENUE (Cf. venue)) …   Etymology dictionary

  • 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] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • parvenu — фр. (парвэню) см. парвеню. Толковый словарь иностранных слов Л. П. Крысина. М: Русский язык, 1998 …   Словарь иностранных слов русского языка

  • Parvenu — (fr., spr. Parwenüh), Emporkömmling …   Pierer's Universal-Lexikon

  • Parvenu — (franz., spr. parw nǖ), Emporkömmling …   Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon

  • Parvenu — (frz., spr. parwĕnüh), Emporkömmling …   Kleines Konversations-Lexikon

  • Parvenu — (französ.), ein Emporkömmling, Glückspilz …   Damen Conversations Lexikon

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