parvenu

parvenu

englanti

1. nousukas

Synonyymisanakirja: parvenu

parvenu

1. uusi, nousukasmainen, mahtaileva, suurellinen, äkkirikas, nousukas, kiipijä, uusrikas, pyrkyri.

Katso synonyymisanakirja

Esimerkit: parvenu

Hänessä on parvenu'n kaikki heikkoudet.

Riimisanakirja: parvenu

parvenu rimmaa näiden kanssa:

1. menu, nenu, tenu...

Katso riimisanakirja

Käännökset: parvenu

parvenu suomeksi

nousukasmainen, nousukas

• nousukas

• nousukasmainen

parvenu englanniksi

• 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 Peter's friends", The Guardian

But the favourite's 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.

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

• Adjective parvenu

• Noun parvenu

• (past participle of)

• English parvenu

• (l) (gloss)

Katso parvenu englanniksi

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