arriviste

Noun

1.

arriviste - a person who has suddenly risen to a higher economic status but has not gained social acceptance of others in that class Synonyms: nouveau-riche, parvenu, upstart

Babbitt, Philistine, Young Turk, boor, bounder, bourgeois, bright young man, cad, churl, clown, comer, emigrant, epicier, fledgling, gate-crasher, greenhorn, groundling, guttersnipe, hooligan, ill-bred fellow, immigrant, intruder, looby, lout, low fellow, modern, modern generation, modern man, modernist, modernizer, mucker, neologism, neologist, neology, neonate, neoteric, neoterism, neoterist, new arrival, new boy, new generation, new man, newcomer, nouveau riche, novus homo, parvenu, peasant, recruit, ribald, rising generation, rookie, rough, roughneck, rowdy, ruffian, settler, squatter, stowaway, stripling, tenderfoot, upstart, vulgarian, vulgarist, yokel

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