arriviste

n. upstart, person who is new to a particular position or station in society (especially one who has not earned the respect that goes along with his status); person who is always trying to climb up the social ladder

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Noun
1. a person who has suddenly risen to a higher economic status but has not gained social acceptance of others in that class
(synonym) upstart, parvenu, nouveau-riche
(hypernym) unpleasant person, disagreeable person
(hyponym) social climber, climber

adj. pushing, upstart

nm. arrivist, social climber; pushy, upstart

nm. careerist, climber, social climber, pusher

Synonyms and related words:
Babbitt, Philistine, Young Turk, boor, bounder, bourgeois, bright young man, cad, churl, clown, comer, emigrant, epicier, fledgling, gate-crasher, greenhorn, groundling, guttersnipe, hooligan, ill-bred fellow, immigrant, intruder, looby, lout, low fellow, modern, modern generation, modern man, modernist, modernizer, mucker, neologism, neologist, neology, neonate, neoteric, neoterism, neoterist, new arrival, new boy, new generation, new man, newcomer, nouveau riche, novus homo, parvenu, peasant, recruit, ribald, rising generation, rookie, rough, roughneck, rowdy, ruffian, settler, squatter, stowaway, stripling, tenderfoot, upstart, vulgarian, vulgarist, yokel