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"sense": "a person who has risen, climbed up, or has been promoted to a higher social class",
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"sense": "a person who has risen, climbed up, or has been promoted to a higher social class",
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"sense": "a person who has risen, climbed up, or has been promoted to a higher social class",
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "a person who has risen, climbed up, or has been promoted to a higher social class",
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"code": "fr",
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"word": "parvenu"
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"code": "fr",
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"sense": "a person who has risen, climbed up, or has been promoted to a higher social class",
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "a person who has risen, climbed up, or has been promoted to a higher social class",
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"masculine"
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"word": "Emporkömmling"
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "a person who has risen, climbed up, or has been promoted to a higher social class",
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"masculine"
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"word": "Parvenü"
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"code": "el",
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"roman": "neóploutos",
"sense": "a person who has risen, climbed up, or has been promoted to a higher social class",
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"word": "νεόπλουτος"
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"code": "hu",
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"sense": "a person who has risen, climbed up, or has been promoted to a higher social class",
"word": "parvenü"
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"code": "is",
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"sense": "a person who has risen, climbed up, or has been promoted to a higher social class",
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"code": "is",
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"sense": "a person who has risen, climbed up, or has been promoted to a higher social class",
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"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "a person who has risen, climbed up, or has been promoted to a higher social class",
"word": "parvenuo"
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"code": "it",
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"sense": "a person who has risen, climbed up, or has been promoted to a higher social class",
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"alt": "なりきん",
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"sense": "a person who has risen, climbed up, or has been promoted to a higher social class",
"word": "成り金"
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"alt": "なりあがりもの",
"code": "ja",
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"sense": "a person who has risen, climbed up, or has been promoted to a higher social class",
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"alt": "できぼし",
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"roman": "dekiboshi",
"sense": "a person who has risen, climbed up, or has been promoted to a higher social class",
"word": "出来星"
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"code": "lt",
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"sense": "a person who has risen, climbed up, or has been promoted to a higher social class",
"word": "iškilėlis"
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"code": "pl",
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"sense": "a person who has risen, climbed up, or has been promoted to a higher social class",
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"code": "pl",
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"sense": "a person who has risen, climbed up, or has been promoted to a higher social class",
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"code": "pl",
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"sense": "a person who has risen, climbed up, or has been promoted to a higher social class",
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"code": "pt",
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"sense": "a person who has risen, climbed up, or has been promoted to a higher social class",
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"word": "parvenu"
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"code": "ru",
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"roman": "parvenjú",
"sense": "a person who has risen, climbed up, or has been promoted to a higher social class",
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"masculine"
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"word": "парвеню́"
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"word": "нувори́ш"
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"sense": "a person who has risen, climbed up, or has been promoted to a higher social class",
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"masculine"
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"word": "advenedizo"
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"sense": "a person who has risen, climbed up, or has been promoted to a higher social class",
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"word": "parveny"
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"sense": "a person who has risen, climbed up, or has been promoted to a higher social class",
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"word": "uppkomling"
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"ref": "1903, Samuel Butler, chapter 66, in The Way of All Flesh",
"text": "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.",
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"ref": "2001, Norman Birnbaum, After Progress, Oxford University Press",
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"ref": "2003, Edith Grossman, chapter 1, in Living to Tell the Tale, translation of original by Gabriel García Márquez, published 2002",
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"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "being a parvenu; also, like or having the characteristics of a parvenu",
"word": "tõusiklik"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "being a parvenu; also, like or having the characteristics of a parvenu",
"word": "nousukasmainen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "being a parvenu; also, like or having the characteristics of a parvenu",
"word": "parvenühaft"
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"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "neóploutos",
"sense": "being a parvenu; also, like or having the characteristics of a parvenu",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "νεόπλουτος"
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{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "being a parvenu; also, like or having the characteristics of a parvenu",
"word": "parvenü"
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{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "being a parvenu; also, like or having the characteristics of a parvenu",
"word": "felkapaszkodott"
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"word": "advenedizo"
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