| 单词 | arriviste |
| 释义 | arriviste (once / 161909 pages) n An arriviste is someone who's moved up in the world quickly and ends up being resented. You might visit your hometown and feel like it's full of arrivistes who can pay exorbitant prices for enormous houses. When someone suddenly earns a whole lot more money than they did before, they find themselves in a new economic class. If the people who have belonged to this group for a long time (maybe they inherited their wealth from their grandparents, for example) are resentful of this person and their "new money," they might use the word arriviste. An arriviste is newly arrived in this world — as you can see in the French root, arriver, "to arrive." WORD FAMILYarriviste: arrivistes USAGE EXAMPLESAnd because no matter who the new president is, after all, he’s just a temporary resident — an arriviste. Washington Times(Dec 27, 2016) Trump and his wife, Ivana, were wealthy arrivistes on the New York social scene. The New Yorker(Aug 29, 2016) Coco Chanel, at heart a peasant arriviste, loved playing Queen of the Ritz. Wall Street Journal(Jun 23, 2016) n a person who has suddenly risen to a higher economic status but has not gained social acceptance of others in that class Syn|Hypo|Hyper nouveau-riche, parvenu, upstart climber, social climber someone seeking social prominence by obsequious behavior juniorterm of address for a disrespectful and annoying male lion-huntersomeone who tries to attract social lions as guests disagreeable person, unpleasant person a person who is not pleasant or agreeable |
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