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.
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Parvenu
//ˈpɑɹ.və.nju//
Synonyms for "parvenu" (108 found)
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Closest matches (22)
Strong matches (32)
Related words (54)
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2 entriesSynonyms
4 entriesRelated terms
1 entriesderived
3 entriesetymologically related_to
1 entriesrelated to
7 entriessimilar
2 entriesTranslations
53 translations across 22 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- новобогаташ noun (a person who has risen, climbed up, or has been promoted to a higher social class)
- парвеню noun (a person who has risen, climbed up, or has been promoted to a higher social class)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 新貴 /新贵 noun (a person who has risen, climbed up, or has been promoted to a higher social class)
- 暴發戶 /暴发户 noun (a person who has risen, climbed up, or has been promoted to a higher social class)
Czech
2 entries- parvenu noun (a person who has risen, climbed up, or has been promoted to a higher social class)
- zbohatlík noun (a person who has risen, climbed up, or has been promoted to a higher social class)
Dutch
1 entries- parvenu noun (a person who has risen, climbed up, or has been promoted to a higher social class)
Esperanto
1 entries- parvenuo noun (a person who has risen, climbed up, or has been promoted to a higher social class)
Estonian
2 entries- tõusiklik adj (being a parvenu; also, like or having the characteristics of a parvenu)
- tõusik noun (a person who has risen, climbed up, or has been promoted to a higher social class)
Finnish
2 entries- nousukasmainen adj (being a parvenu; also, like or having the characteristics of a parvenu)
- nousukas noun (a person who has risen, climbed up, or has been promoted to a higher social class)
French
2 entries- parvenu noun (a person who has risen, climbed up, or has been promoted to a higher social class)
- parvenue noun (a person who has risen, climbed up, or has been promoted to a higher social class)
German
3 entries- parvenühaft adj (being a parvenu; also, like or having the characteristics of a parvenu)
- Emporkömmling noun (a person who has risen, climbed up, or has been promoted to a higher social class)
- Parvenü noun (a person who has risen, climbed up, or has been promoted to a higher social class)
Greek
2 entries- νεόπλουτος adj (being a parvenu; also, like or having the characteristics of a parvenu)
- νεόπλουτος noun (a person who has risen, climbed up, or has been promoted to a higher social class)
Hungarian
3 entries- felkapaszkodott adj (being a parvenu; also, like or having the characteristics of a parvenu)
- parvenü adj (being a parvenu; also, like or having the characteristics of a parvenu)
- parvenü noun (a person who has risen, climbed up, or has been promoted to a higher social class)
Icelandic
2 entries- stéttskiptingur noun (a person who has risen, climbed up, or has been promoted to a higher social class)
- uppskafningur noun (a person who has risen, climbed up, or has been promoted to a higher social class)
Ido
1 entries- parvenuo noun (a person who has risen, climbed up, or has been promoted to a higher social class)
Italian
1 entries- parvenu noun (a person who has risen, climbed up, or has been promoted to a higher social class)
Japanese
3 entries- 出来星 noun (a person who has risen, climbed up, or has been promoted to a higher social class)
- 成り上がり者 noun (a person who has risen, climbed up, or has been promoted to a higher social class)
- 成り金 noun (a person who has risen, climbed up, or has been promoted to a higher social class)
Lithuanian
1 entries- iškilėlis noun (a person who has risen, climbed up, or has been promoted to a higher social class)
Macedonian
1 entries- скороевец noun (a person who has risen, climbed up, or has been promoted to a higher social class)
Polish
4 entries- dorobkiewiczowski adj (being a parvenu; also, like or having the characteristics of a parvenu)
- karierowiczowski adj (being a parvenu; also, like or having the characteristics of a parvenu)
- nowobogacki adj (being a parvenu; also, like or having the characteristics of a parvenu)
- nuworyszowski adj (being a parvenu; also, like or having the characteristics of a parvenu)
Portuguese
1 entries- parvenu noun (a person who has risen, climbed up, or has been promoted to a higher social class)
Russian
3 entries- вы́скочка noun (a person who has risen, climbed up, or has been promoted to a higher social class)
- нувори́ш noun (a person who has risen, climbed up, or has been promoted to a higher social class)
- парвеню́ noun (a person who has risen, climbed up, or has been promoted to a higher social class)
Spanish
2 entries- advenedizo adj (being a parvenu; also, like or having the characteristics of a parvenu)
- advenedizo noun (a person who has risen, climbed up, or has been promoted to a higher social class)
Swedish
2 entries- parveny noun (a person who has risen, climbed up, or has been promoted to a higher social class)
- uppkomling noun (a person who has risen, climbed up, or has been promoted to a higher social class)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
Loss of money is far the worst, then comes ill-health, and then loss of reputation; loss of reputation is a bad third, for, if a man keeps health and money unimpaired, it will be generally found that his loss of reputation is due to breaches of parvenu conventions only, and not to violations of those older, better established canons whose authority is unquestionable.
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The Progressives were of the educated middle class, angry at the rule of parvenu financiers and industrialists.
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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.
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