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Definition: Upstart |
UpstartAdjective1. Characteristic of someone who has risen economically or socially but lacks the social skills appropriate for this new position. Noun1. An arrogant or presumptuous person. 2. 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 "upstart" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Synonyms: UpstartSynonyms: parvenue (adj), upstart(a) (adj), nouveau-riche (n), parvenu (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. |
Prosperity | Upstart, parvenu, skipjack, mushroom. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Upstart |
| English words defined with "upstart": jumped-up ♦ Neocracy ♦ smart aleck, Start-up ♦ Upskip, Upspring, Upsterte ♦ weisenheimer, wise guy, wiseacre, wisenheimer. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "upstart": Upskip. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Belgian upstart, please madame (Death on the Nile; writing credit: Agatha Christie; Anthony Shaffer) You perfectly foul French upstart! (Death on the Nile; writing credit: Agatha Christie; Anthony Shaffer) Do you think I feel no revulsion for this form? Do you believe for a moment that our Lord would risk his empire upon an upstart inheritance (Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver; writing credit: Amy Hennig) | |
Lyrics | You old upstart (Hammond Song; performing artist: The Roches) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Upstart (1917) | |
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Communist Manifesto | 1848 | In the French revolution of July 1830, and in the English reform agitation, these aristocracies again succumbed to the hateful upstart. (reference) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Ukraine | This created an important vacuum for upstart Ukrainian entrepreneurs and the birth of a more market-based supply and distribution system. (references) |
Azerbaijan | The construction market in Azerbaijan has rapidly evolved from a state controlled monolith to one marked by upstart architectural, design and building firms with a thirst for the latest Western technologies and building materials. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Upstart" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.00% of the time. "Upstart" is used about 50 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) | 98% | 49 | 48,677 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 2% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 50 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "upstart": upstart publisher. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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 |
upstart | 25 |
crow shirt t upstart | 5 |
company crow trading upstart | 5 |
upstart crow | 5 |
certificate crow gift upstart | 4 |
corw mug upstart | 3 |
book upstart | 3 |
highsmith upstart | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "upstart"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | zengjim i ri, ngre duke kërcitur. (various references) | |
Arabic | غني الحرب (war profiteer), المغرور (bumptious, coxcomb, egoist, puppy, wise guy, wiseacre), المدع (claimant, complainant, poseur, pretender, prosecutor), شخص محدث النعمة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | парвенюшки (vulgar), парвеню (bounder, mushroom, outsider, parvenu, vulgarian). (various references) | |
Czech | zbohatlík (mushroom, profiteer), povýšenec (parvenu), parvenu (parvenu). (various references) | |
Farsi | یکه خوردن , نوکیسه , تازه بدوران رسیده , ادم متکبر. (various references) | |
Finnish | nousukas (parvenu). (various references) | |
French | parvenu, enrichie, bêcheur (uppish), arrogant (uppish), arriviste. (various references) | |
German | Neureiche (nouveau riche), Emporkömmling (parvenu, social climber, upstage, upstart publisher). (various references) | |
Greek | νεόπλουτοσ (nouveau riche, parvenu). (various references) | |
Hebrew | א"ם שעל" ל'"ול", ""יוט שעל" ל'"ול". (various references) | |
Hungarian | újgazdag (cocktail, mushroom, nouveau rich, parvenu, vulgarian). (various references) | |
Italian | parvenu (parvenu). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 成り上がり者 (parvenu), 成り上がり (jumped-up person, parvenu), 出来星 (mushroom millionaire). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | なりあがりもの (parvenu), なりあがり (jumped-up person, parvenu), できぼし (mushroom millionaire). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | artupstay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | novo-rico (cocktail, mushroom, parvenu, vulgarian), indivíduo arrogante (jackanapes), arrivista (opportunist). (various references) | |
Romanian | parvenit (carpet knight, cocktail, mushroom, nouveau riche, parvenu, squirt), ciocoi (exploiter, extortioner, fleecer, toady), învârtit (racketeer, whirled). (various references) | |
Russian | выскочка (beggar on horseback, cocktail, mushroom, parvenu, vulgarian). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | započeti (begin, commence, fire away, initiate, preface, start, start off), skorojević (nouveau riche, parvenu, skipjack), laktaroš (place hunter, pusher). (various references) | |
Spanish | advenedizo (parvenu). (various references) | |
Swedish | uppkomling (cocktail, parvenu, runner up, runner-up). (various references) | |
Turkish | yeni zengin (new-rich, nouveau riche), sonradan görme (jumped-up, nouveau riche, parvenu, vulgarian), birden zengin olan kimse, birden zengin olan. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | самовпевнений (arrogant, assertive, assuming, assumptive, assured, bold, bumptious, calm, chesty, cocksure, cocksy, confident, coxy, nervy, nose-wise, opinionated, opinioned, overconfident, overweening, perk, positive, presuming, reliant, self confident, self sufficient, self-assertive, self-assured, self-opinionated), вискочка (parvenu, snob), новомодний (newfangled, new-fashioned). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | người mới phất (arriviste). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "upstart": upstarted, upstarting, upstarts. (additional references) | |
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"Upstart" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: mpstat, Ulstat, upstat. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "upstart" (pronounced u"pstÄ'rt) |
| 3 | -Ä' r t | counterpart, mouthpart, multipart, outsmart, oxcart, sweetheart. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: startup. | |
| Words within the letters "a-p-r-s-t-t-u" | |
-2 letters: parts, prats, praus, pruta, putts, sprat, spurt, sputa, start, strap, strut, stupa, sturt, supra, sutra, sutta, tarps, tarts, tauts, traps, trapt, trust, turps. | |
-3 letters: arts, pars, part, past, pats, prat, prau, purs, puts, putt, raps, rapt, rasp, rats, rust, ruts, spar, spat, spur, star, stat, sura, taps, tarp, tars, tart, tats, taus. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-p-r-s-t-t-u" | |
+1 letter: startups, upstarts, upstater. | |
+2 letters: abruptest, trapuntos, upstarted, upstaters. | |
+3 letters: autotrophs, mouthparts, plutocrats, postpartum, postulator, stipulator, superstate, upstarting, waterspout. | |
+4 letters: naturopaths, parachutist, parturients, perpetuates, petrolatums, pituitaries, platterfuls, plattersful, postulators, punctuators, reputations, spiritualty, stipulators, stipulatory, superfatted, supernatant, superstates, superstrata, suprematist, vituperates, waterspouts. | |
+5 letters: apiculturist, appurtenants, autotrophies, counterparts, parachutists, particulates, parturitions, permutations, perpetuators, portmanteaus, portraitures, postfracture, postgraduate, spiritualist, spirituality, stepdaughter, subtemperate, superathlete, supernatants, superpatriot, superstation, superstratum, suprematists, temperatures, therapeutics, triumphalist, vituperators. | |
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