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General (33 matching dictionaries)

1. parvenu: Merriam-Webster.com [home, info]
2. parvenu: Oxford Dictionaries [home, info]
3. parvenu: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
4. parvenu: Collins English Dictionary [home, info]
5. parvenu: Vocabulary.com [home, info]
6. parvenu: Macmillan Dictionary [home, info]
7. Parvenu, parvenu: Wordnik [home, info]
8. parvenu: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary [home, info]
9. parvenu: Wiktionary [home, info]
10. parvenu: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
11. parvenu: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
12. parvenu: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
13. parvenu: Dictionary.com [home, info]
14. parvenu: Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
15. parvenu: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
16. Parvenu: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
17. Parvenu: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
18. parvenu: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
19. parvenu: Rhymezone [home, info]
20. Parvenu, parvenu (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
21. parvenu: Hutchinson's Dictionary of Difficult Words [home, info]
22. parvenu: Free Dictionary [home, info]
23. parvenu: Hutchinson Dictionaries [home, info]
24. parvenu: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words [home, info]
25. parvenu: Luciferous Logolepsy [home, info]
26. parvenu: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
27. parvenu: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
28. parvenu: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
29. parvenu: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]
30. parvenu: Worthless Word For The Day [home, info]
31. Parvenu: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898) [home, info]

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)

32. parvenu: A Word A Day [home, info]

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Quick definitions from Macmillan ( ) Provided by Quick definitions from WordNet (parvenu) ▸ noun:  a person who has suddenly risen to a higher economic status but has not gained social acceptance of others in that class ▸ adjective:  of or characteristic of a parvenu ▸ adjective:  characteristic of someone who has risen economically or socially but lacks the social skills appropriate for this new position ▸ Also see parvenus ▸ Word origin ▸ Words similar to parvenu ▸ Usage examples for parvenu ▸ Popular adjectives describing parvenu ▸ Popular nouns described by parvenu ▸ Words that often appear near parvenu ▸ Rhymes of parvenu ▸ Invented words related to parvenu