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arriviste

/ˌæ.ɹɪˈviːst/US/ˌɑɹiˈvist/

arriviste noun: an upstart or newcomer; nouveau riche; parvenu; an ambitious, brash or arrogant person who has yet to integrate with his or her new social group.

Noun

arriviste (plural arrivistes)

  1. (derogatory) An upstart or newcomer; nouveau riche; parvenu; an ambitious, brash or arrogant person who has yet to integrate with his or her new social group.
    • The second class in the bureaucracy, among whom are to be found most of the men occupying political posts just below the top, consists of arrivistes, who are enthusiastic Bolsheviks because of the material success of Bolshevism.1920, Bertrand Russell, chapter V, in The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism

arriviste meaning in Tamil and Malayalam

arriviste in Tamil

தன்னலவேட்டையர், திடுமெனமுன்னுக்குவரமுயல்பவர்

arriviste in Malayalam

status seeker, social climber, would-be
ഔന്നത്യത്തിലെത്താൻ തത്രപ്പെടുന്നവൻ, യശഃപ്രാർത്ഥി, പദാഭിലാഷി, സ്ഥാനമോഹി, ഈഹാർത്ഥി, ചക്രക്കാരൻ

Forms of arriviste

pluralarrivistes

Origin of arriviste

Borrowed from French arriviste.

Words formed from arriviste

Questions about arriviste

What does arriviste mean?
Arriviste means an upstart or newcomer; nouveau riche; parvenu; an ambitious, brash or arrogant person who has yet to integrate with his or her new social group.
What is arriviste in Tamil?
Arriviste in Tamil is தன்னலவேட்டையர், திடுமெனமுன்னுக்குவரமுயல்பவர். See Arriviste meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is arriviste?
Arriviste is a noun.
How do you pronounce arriviste?
Arriviste is pronounced /ˌæ.ɹɪˈviːst/.
What is the plural of arriviste?
The plural of arriviste is arrivistes.

Words near arriviste in the dictionary

  1. arrividerci
  2. arriving
  3. arriving at
  4. arrivism
  5. arrivisme
  6. arriviste
  7. arrivistes
  8. arrivistic
  9. Arrizon
  10. Arrizons
  11. arrière

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: arriviste (page history and authors); arriviste (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); arriviste (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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