1. Someone who has recently become wealthy or risen to a higher position in society, but who is still considered as an inferior by other rich and powerful people: Morgan became a parvenu when he recently became affluent and did not get the prestige, dignity, and manner associated with it because, when his aunt died and willed her property and money to him, he was still working as a carpenter's assistant.
2. Etymology: from Latin pervenio, "to arrive, to reach” and then from French, parvenir, "to reach, to arrive, to manage to achieve something." © ALL rights are reserved.

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