Wat (wie) is PARVENUS - definitie
RELATIVE NEWCOMER TO A SOCIOECONOMIC CLASS
Social climber; Parvenus; Social Climbers; Social-climbing; Social climbing; Arriviste
parvenu
a person of obscure origin who has gained wealth or position . An upstart
The man didn't seem at ease with the other guests and seemed intimidated by the opulent surroundings . I began to suspect that he may be a parvenu .
The man didn't seem at ease with the other guests and seemed intimidated by the opulent surroundings . I began to suspect that he may be a parvenu .
parvenu
(parvenus)
If you describe someone as a parvenu, you think that although they have acquired wealth or high status they are not very cultured or well-educated. (FORMAL)
N-COUNT [disapproval]
parvenu
n.
[Fr.] Upstart, mushroom, snob, pretentious fellow, pretender to gentility.
Wikipedia
Parvenu
A parvenu is a person who is a relative newcomer to a high-ranking socioeconomic class. The word is borrowed from the French language; it is the past participle of the verb parvenir (to reach, to arrive, to manage to do something).
Voorbeelden uit tekstcorpus voor PARVENUS
1. His son, the British–ennobled Sir Hamid Karzai, seems to suffer from the same predilection to the folie de grandeur that afflicts parvenus and predisposes them to inappropriate behavior and comments.
2. "The manufacturers of the Victorian era and the first part of the 20th century were parvenus largely, self–made men who had nothing to do with the aristocracy and the intelligentsia." The rise of union power in the second half of the 20th century further tarnished factories as places of strife.