parvenu

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈpɑː.və.njuː/|/ˈpɑː.və.nuː/    美 /ˈpɑɹ.və.nju/|/ˈpɑɹ.və.nu/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person who has risen, climbed up, or has been promoted to a higher social class, especially through acquisition of wealth, privileges, or political authority but has not gained social acceptance by those within that new class.
    — 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.
形容词 adj.
  1. Being a parvenu; also, like, having the characteristics of, or associated with a parvenu. not-comparable
    — 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.

词形变化

parvenus plural

词源

词源 1
Borrowed from French parvenu, past participle of parvenir, from Latin perveniō (“arrive, reach”).
See also parvenue f
词源 2
Borrowed from French parvenu, past participle of parvenir, from Latin perveniō (“arrive, reach”).
See also parvenue f
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