"snobbery" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: snobberies [plural]
Etymology: From snob + -ery – doubled ‘b’ to clarify pronunciation of ‘o’. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|snob|ery}} snob + -ery Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} snobbery (countable and uncountable, plural snobberies)
  1. The property or trait of being a snob. Tags: countable, uncountable Synonyms: snobbism Derived forms: inverted snobbery Translations (the property or trait of being a snob): снобизъм (snobizǎm) [masculine] (Bulgarian), 勢利 (Chinese Mandarin), 势利 (shìli) (Chinese Mandarin), snobisme [neuter] (Dutch), snobismi (Finnish), snobbailu (Finnish), snobisme [masculine] (French), Snobismus [masculine] (German), ακαταδεξιά (akatadexiá) [feminine] (Greek), sznobság (Hungarian), sznobizmus (Hungarian), ardnós [masculine] (Irish), snobizm [masculine] (Polish), arrogância (Portuguese), esnobismo (Portuguese), сноби́зм (snobízm) [masculine] (Russian), pijada [Spain, feminine] (Spanish), pijotada [Spain, feminine] (Spanish), esnobismo [masculine] (Spanish), señoritismo [masculine] (Spanish)

Inflected forms

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      "sense": "the property or trait of being a snob",
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      "sense": "the property or trait of being a snob",
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      "sense": "the property or trait of being a snob",
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      "sense": "the property or trait of being a snob",
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