upstart

• POS: Noun, Verb (usu participle), Verb (intransitive)
• HYPHEN: up=start

CIDE DICTIONARY

upstart, v. i. 

 To start or spring up suddenly.  Spenser. Tennyson.  [1913 Webster]

upstart, n. 

•  One who has risen suddenly, as from low life to wealth, power, or honor; a parvenu.  Bacon.  [1913 Webster]
•  The meadow saffron.  Dr. Prior.  [1913 Webster]

upstart, a. 

 Suddenly raised to prominence or consequence.  Milton.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

upstart, n. & adj.
--n. a person who has risen suddenly to prominence, esp. one who behaves arrogantly.
--adj.
1 that is an upstart.
2 of or characteristic of an upstart.

THESAURUS

upstart

Babbitt, Philistine, Young Turk, adventurer, arriviste, bob up, boldface, boor, bounder, bourgeois, bourgeois gentilhomme, brazenface, break water, bright young man, cad, churl, chutzpanik, clown, comer, emigrant, epicier, fledgling, float up, fly up, fountain, gate-crasher, greenhorn, groundling, gush, guttersnipe, hooligan, hussy, ill-bred fellow, immigrant, intruder, jet, jump up, leap up, looby, lout, low fellow, malapert, minx, modern, modern generation, modern man, modernist, modernizer, mucker, mushroom, name-dropper, neologism, neologist, neology, neonate, neoteric, neoterism, neoterist, new arrival, new boy, new generation, new man, newcomer, newly-rich, nobody, nouveau riche, nouveau roturier, nouveau-riche, novus homo, outsider, parvenu, parvenue, peasant, pig in clover, pop up, pretender, pup, puppy, recruit, ribald, rising generation, rocket, rookie, roturier, rough, roughneck, rowdy, ruffian, saucebox, settler, shoot up, skyrocket, slob, smart aleck, smart-ass, smarty, smarty-pants, social climber, spring up, sprout, spurt, squatter, start up, status seeker, stowaway, stripling, surface, swaggerer, tenderfoot, tufthunter, upleap, upshoot, upspear, upspring, vault up, vulgarian, vulgarist, whippersnapper, wise guy, wise-ass, would-be gentleman, yokel

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upstart

Prosperity

N prosperity, welfare, well-being, affluence, success, thrift, roaring trade, good fortune, smiles of fortune, blessings, godsend, luck, good luck, run of luck, sunshine, fair weather, fair wind, palmy days, bright days, halcyon days, piping times, tide, flood, high tide, Saturnia regna, Saturnian age, golden time, golden age, bed of roses, fat city, fat of the land, milk and honey, loaves and fishes, made man, lucky dog, enfant gate, spoiled child of fortune, upstart, parvenu, skipjack, mushroom, prosperous, thriving, in a fair way, buoyant, well off, well to do, well to do in the world, set up, at one's ease, rich, in good case, in full, in high feather, fortunate, lucky, in luck, born with a silver spoon in one's mouth, born under a lucky star, on the sunny side of the hedge, auspicious, propitious, providential, palmy, halcyon, agreeable, couleur de rose, prosperously, swimmingly, as good luck would have it, beyond all hope, one's star in the ascendant, all for the best, one's course runs smooth, chacun est l'artisan de sa fortune, donec eris felix multos numerabis amicos, felicitas multos habet amicos, felix se nescit amari, good luck go with thee, nulli est homini perpetuum bonum.

Commonalty

N commonality, commonalty, democracy, obscurity, low condition, low life, low society, low company, bourgeoisie, mass of the people, mass of society, Brown Jones and Robinson, lower classes, humbler classes, humbler orders, vulgar herd, common herd, rank and file, hoc genus omne, the many, the general, the crowd, the people, the populace, the multitude, the million, the masses, the mobility, the peasantry, king Mob, proletariat, fruges consumere nati, demos, hoi polloi, great unwashed, man in the street, mob, rabble, rabble rout, chaff, rout, horde, canaille, scum of the people, residuum of the people, dregs of the people, dregs of society, swinish multitude, foex populi, trash, profanum vulgus, ignobile vulgus, vermin, riffraff, ragtag and bobtail, small fry, commoner, one of the people, democrat, plebeian, republican, proletary, proletaire, roturier, Mr, Snooks, bourgeois, epicier, Philistine, cockney, grisette, demimonde, peasant, countryman, boor, carle, churl, villain, villein, terrae filius, son of the land, serf, kern, tyke, tike, chuff, ryot, fellah, longshoreman, swain, clown, hind, clod, clodhopper, hobnail, yokel, bog-trotter, bumpkin, plowman, plowboy, rustic, hayseed, lunkhead, chaw-bacon, tiller of the soil, hewers of wood and drawers of water, groundling, gaffer, loon, put, cub, Tony Lumpkin, looby, rube, lout, underling, gamin, rough, pot- wallopper, slubberdegullion, vulgar fellow, low fellow, cad, curmudgeon, upstart, parvenu, skipjack, nobody, nobody one knows, hesterni quirites, pessoribus orti, bourgeois gentilhomme, novus homo, snob, gent, mushroom, no one knows who, adventurer, man of straw, beggar, gaberlunzie, muckworm, mudlark, sans culotte, raff, tatterdemalion, caitiff, ragamuffin, Pariah, outcast of society, tramp, vagabond, bezonian, panhandler, sundowner, chiffonnier, Cinderella, cinderwench, scrub, jade, gossoon, Goth, Vandal, Hottentot, Zulu, savage, barbarian, Yahoo, unlicked cub, rough diamond, barbarousness, barbarism, boeotia, ignoble, common, mean, low, base, vile, sorry, scrubby, beggarly, below par, no great shakes, homely, homespun, vulgar, low-minded, snobbish, plebeian, proletarian, of low parentage, of low origin, of low extraction, of mean parentage, of mean origin, of mean extraction, lowborn, baseborn, earthborn, mushroom, dunghill, risen from the ranks, unknown to fame, obscure, untitled, rustic, uncivilized, loutish, boorish, clownish, churlish, brutish, raffish, rude, unlicked, barbarous, barbarian, barbaric, barbaresque, cockney, born within sound of Bow bells, underling, menial, subaltern, below the salt, dummodo sit dives barbarus ipse placet.