Arriviste

2 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  arriviste
       n : a person who has suddenly risen to a higher economic status
           but has not gained social acceptance of others in that
           class [syn: {upstart}, {parvenu}, {nouveau-riche}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:



  64 Moby Thesaurus words for "arriviste":
     Babbitt, Philistine, Young Turk, boor, bounder, bourgeois,
     bright young man, cad, churl, clown, comer, emigrant, epicier,
     fledgling, gate-crasher, greenhorn, groundling, guttersnipe,
     hooligan, ill-bred fellow, immigrant, intruder, looby, lout,
     low fellow, modern, modern generation, modern man, modernist,
     modernizer, mucker, neologism, neologist, neology, neonate,
     neoteric, neoterism, neoterist, new arrival, new boy,
     new generation, new man, newcomer, nouveau riche, novus homo,
     parvenu, peasant, recruit, ribald, rising generation, rookie,
     rough, roughneck, rowdy, ruffian, settler, squatter, stowaway,
     stripling, tenderfoot, upstart, vulgarian, vulgarist, yokel