Parvenu

n.

1.

An upstart; a man newly risen into notice.

Noun	1.	parvenu - a person who has suddenly risen to a higher economic status but has not gained social acceptance of others in that class Synonyms: arriviste, nouveau-riche, upstart
Adj.	1.	parvenu - characteristic of someone who has risen economically or socially but lacks the social skills appropriate for this new position Synonyms: nouveau-riche, parvenue, upstart
	2.	parvenu - of or characteristic of a parvenu Synonyms: parvenue

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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