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parvenu
[ pahr-vuh-noo, -nyoo, pahr-vuh-noo, -nyoo ]
noun
- 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
- being or resembling a parvenu.
- characteristic of a parvenu.
parvenu
/ ˈ±èɑ˱¹É™ËŒ²ÔÂá³ÜË /
noun
- 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
- of or characteristic of a parvenu
Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
- ±è²¹°ùv±ð·²Ô³Üd´Ç³¾ noun
- ±è²¹°ùv±ð·²Ô³Ü·¾±²õ³¾ noun
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of parvenu1
Example Sentences
Beagin widens her lens to take in this cast of locals and upstate parvenus even as she stays focused on Greta’s rising fever.
The tendrils of Rangnick’s influence spread far beyond the parvenu clubs — Hoffenheim, Red Bull Salzburg, RB Leipzig — that he has turned into mainstays of either the Bundesliga or the Champions League.
Worse, they had begun to attract the wrong sort of people—parvenus from Boston and New York.
Pianists were the standard accompanists, but Shaw dismissed them as parvenus.
PGA Tour ranges are littered with teams of agents, instructors, lackeys and general parvenus.
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