| \PAHR-vuh-noo, -nyoo, pahr-vuh-NOO, -NYOO\ |
noun
1. a person who has recently or suddenly acquired wealth, importance, position, or the like, but has not yet developed the conventionally appropriate manners, dress, surroundings, etc.
adjective
1. being or resembling a parvenu.
2. characteristic of a parvenu. |
| Quotes |
It was a joke, my dear, worthy of a lackey, or of a silly, smart parvenu, not knowing the society into which his luck had cast him…
-- William Makepeace Thackeray, The Second Funeral of Napoleon, 1841 |
| Origin |
| Parvenu entered English in the 1700s from the French word of the same spelling meaning "upstart." It comes from the French verb parvenir which means "to arrive, reach." |
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