Definizione monolingua

parvenu

parvenu m. (f parvenue, m plural parvenus, f plural parvenues)

1. Past participle of parvenir

parvenu (plural parvenus)

1. A person who has risen, climbed up, or has been promoted to a higher social class, especially through acquisition of wealth, rights, or political authority but has not gained social acceptance by those within that new class.
   • 2001, January 31, Francis Wheen, ""The whole truth about Peters friends"", The Guardian

     But the favourites power and influence provoke intense ill-feeling among other courtiers, who regard him as a sinister, usurping parvenu with ideas above his station, or perhaps even a sorcerer.

parvenu (not comparable)

1. Being a parvenu; also, like or having the characteristics of a parvenu.
   • 2001, Norman Birnbaum, After Progress, Oxford University Press,

     The Progressives were of the educated middle class, angry at the rule of parvenu financiers and industrialists.

   • 2003, Edith Grossman (translator), Gabriel García Márquez, Living to Tell the Tale (2002), Chapter 1,

     The majority of the adults, however, viewed Luisa Santiaga as the precious jewel of a rich and powerful family whom a parvenu telegraph operator was courting not for love but self-interest.

Definizione dizionario parvenu

arricchito

parvenu

pervenita

pervenite

perveniti

pervenito

Altri significati:

being a parvenu; also, like or having the characteristics of a parvenu

Being a parvenu; also, like or having the characteristics of a parvenu.

A person who has risen, climbed up, or has been promoted to a higher social class, especially through acquisition of wealth, rights, or political authority but has not gained social acceptance by those within that new class.

Wealthy person whose fortunes are newly acquired, and who is therefore perceived to lack the refinement of those who were raised wealthy.

a person who has risen, climbed up, or has been promoted to a higher social class