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Definition: Parvenu |
ParvenuAdjective1. Characteristic of someone who has risen economically or socially but lacks the social skills appropriate for this new position. 2. Of or characteristic of a parvenu. Noun1. A person who has suddenly risen to a higher economic status but has not gained social acceptance of others in that class. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "parvenu" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1808. (references) |
Etymology: Parvenu \Par"ve*nu`\, noun. [French expression, prop. present participle of parvenir to attain to, to succeed, to rise to high station, from Latin expression pervenire to come to; per through venire to come. See Par, preposition, and Come.]. (references) |
Synonyms: ParvenuSynonyms: parvenue (adj), upstart(a) (adj), nouveau-riche (n), upstart (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Commonalty | Upstart, parvenu, skipjack; nobody, nobody one knows; hesterni quirites, pessoribus orti; bourgeois gentilhomme, novus homo, snob, gent, mushroom, no one knows who, adventurer; man of straw. |
Newness | Modernism; mushroom, parvenu; latest fashion. |
Prosperity | Upstart, parvenu, skipjack, mushroom. |
Vulgarity | Rough diamond, tomboy, hoyden, cub, unlicked cub; clown; (commonalty); Goth, Vandal, Boeotian; snob, cad, gent; parvenu; frump, dowdy; slattern. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Parvenu |
| English words defined with "parvenu": parvenue. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "parvenu": Stuck-up People. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Parvenu" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Czech (parvenu, upstart), French (parvenu, reached, upstart), Italian (parvenu, upstart). |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Parvenu" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Parvenu" is used about 12 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 12 | 101,599 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
parvenu | 12 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "parvenu"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | honxhobonxho. (various references) | |
Arabic | محدث النعمة, شبيه بمحدث النعمة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | новобогаташ (nouveau riche, outsider), парвеню (bounder, mushroom, outsider, upstart, vulgarian). (various references) | |
Czech | povýšenec (upstart), parvenu (upstart). (various references) | |
Finnish | nousukas (upstart). (various references) | |
French | parvenu. (various references) | |
German | Emporkömmling (social climber, upstage, upstart, upstart publisher). (various references) | |
Greek | νεόπλουτοσ (nouveau riche, upstart), νεόπλουτος. (various references) | |
Hebrew | עשרן, ע י ש"תעשר. (various references) | |
Hungarian | parvenü (cocktail, jumped-up, upstart), felkapaszkodott (jumped-up, upstart), felkapaszkodott ember (beggar on horseback, cocktail, mushroom, vulgarian), újgazdag ember. (various references) | |
Italian | parvenu (upstart). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 成り上がり者 (upstart), 成り上がり (jumped-up person, upstart). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | なりあがりもの (upstart), なりあがり (jumped-up person, upstart). (various references) | |
Manx | fer noa. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | arvenupay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | novo-rico (cocktail, mushroom, upstart, vulgarian). (various references) | |
Romanian | parvenit (carpet knight, cocktail, mushroom, nouveau riche, squirt, upstart). (various references) | |
Russian | выскочка (beggar on horseback, cocktail, mushroom, upstart, vulgarian), парвеню (arriviste, parvenus). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | skorojević (nouveau riche, skipjack, upstart). (various references) | |
Spanish | nuevo rico, advenedizo (upstart). (various references) | |
Swedish | parveny (nouveau riche), uppkomling (cocktail, runner up, runner-up, upstart). (various references) | |
Turkish | zıpçıktı, sonradan görme (jumped-up, nouveau riche, upstart, vulgarian). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | вульгарний (banal, blatant, caddish, coarse, gross, low, low down, non-u, raffish, unladylike, vapid, vulgar, vulgarian), вискочка (snob, upstart). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | kẻ mới phất. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "parvenu": parvenue, parvenues, parvenus. (additional references) | |
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"Parvenu" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: paravane, paraven, pareu, Parkengue, parve, parvene, parvenue, Parvo, Pavoni, perveen, perven, Pradena, Purvine. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-n-p-r-u-v" | |
-2 letters: arpen, pareu, parve, paver, prune, raven. | |
-3 letters: aper, aver, earn, nape, nave, neap, near, pane, pare, pave, pean, pear, prau, puna, pure, rape, rave, reap, rune, urea, uvea, vane, vena, vera. | |
-4 letters: ane, ape, are, ave, ear, eau, era, ern, nae, nap, pan, par, pea, pen, per, pun, pur, ran, rap, rep, rev. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-n-p-r-u-v" | |
+1 letter: parvenue, parvenus. | |
+2 letters: parvenues, supernova. | |
+3 letters: purveyance, supernovae, supernovas, unapproved, unprovable. | |
+4 letters: purveyances. | |
+5 letters: interpluvial, peradventure, unpersuasive, vaporousness, vituperating, vituperation. | |
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