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We found 33 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word parvenu:
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General (32 matching dictionaries)
- parvenu: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
- parvenu: Collins English Dictionary [home, info]
- parvenu: Vocabulary.com [home, info]
- parvenu: Macmillan Dictionary [home, info]
- parvenu: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info]
- Parvenu, parvenu: Wordnik [home, info]
- parvenu: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary [home, info]
- Parvenu: Wiktionary [home, info]
- parvenu: Compact Oxford English Dictionary [home, info]
- parvenu: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
- parvenu: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
- parvenu: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
- parvenu: Dictionary.com [home, info]
- parvenu: Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
- parvenu: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
- Parvenu: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
- Parvenu: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
- parvenu: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
- parvenu: Rhymezone [home, info]
- Parvenu, parvenu (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
- parvenu: Hutchinson's Dictionary of Difficult Words [home, info]
- parvenu: Free Dictionary [home, info]
- parvenu: Hutchinson Dictionaries [home, info]
- parvenu: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words [home, info]
- parvenu: Luciferous Logolepsy [home, info]
- parvenu: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
- parvenu: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
- parvenu: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
- parvenu: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]
- parvenu: Worthless Word For The Day [home, info]
Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
- parvenu: A Word A Day [home, info]
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Quick definitions from Macmillan ()
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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
▸ Word origin
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