noun
definition
One who has suddenly gained wealth, power, or other prominence, but either has not received social acceptance or has become arrogant or presumptuous.
definition
The meadow saffron.
verb
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To rise suddenly, to spring
example
And his unready weapons gan in hand to take.
adjective
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Acting like a parvenu.
definition
Self-important and presumptuous.
Examples of upstart in a Sentence
I decided that I would show this young upstart how to attack a good bend.
I do n't actually give a shit if you think I 'm a cheeky upstart and have no right to comment.
Because if this brash young upstart is to be believed, acquiring these hard-won skills is now an easy matter.
Some residents at the time regarded the Pavilion as a ' new fangled upstart of a cinema '.
The British press was nasty, seeing it as a battle of class -- an English gentleman against an American Jewish woman upstart.
Then, in the middle of the first decade of the new century, the monopoly was broken by small, upstart companies.
For Google to hold its own against upstart search engines, it must deliver on its PageRank promise.
He ultimately sank into a condition of mental stupor, and became the obedient slave of the upstart Struensee (q.v.).
The aims of Owen were described by himself in a letter addressed to Charles VI., king of France, who had hastened to acknowledge the upstart as Prince of Wales and had sent 12,000 troops on his behalf to Milford Haven.
It was convenient that the old nobility should detest the upstart, and that the commons should imagine him to be the person responsible for the demands for money required for the royal wars.
A couple of miles further on I passed the young upstart barely going faster than walking pace.
Some residents at the time regarded the Pavilion as a ' new fangled upstart of a cinema ' .
On the other hand, the upstart Latin emperors, far from proving submissive and humble tools, assumed with the purple the habits and pretensions of the sovereigns they had dispossessed.
Neither of them was an upstart, and both, the one from his experience and the other from his high station, were persons who might legitimately aspire to a place among the advisers of the king.
It is a perpetual covenant, and God himself said so, not some upstart called Paul.
His book, Crazy Like a Fox, focuses on the epic battle between the established news channel and its upstart rival.
In one case, the King of Spain sent a fleet to crush one of these upstart rogue states.
When you were talking about a " certain upstart web-browser " that tried to clone existing ones, I was thinking of IE !
Established and conservative ways of operating are no longer strong enough weapons with which to fight off the midsized, upstart pharmaceutical firms.
So when an upstart game makes its way to a second or third-tier publisher, or weak publisher tries to conceive a strong low-cost seller, interesting things happen.
The cost of this area is significantly less than other exhibitor areas, but the company must be an upstart.
Theodore soon after married his second wife Terunish, the proud daughter of the late governor of Tigre, who felt neither affection nor respect for the upstart who had dethroned her father, and the union was by no means a happy one.
Their worst enemies were those who during the civil war had beentheir best friends, the mercenary captains and upstart knights whom John had made sheriffs and castellans.
This young upstart only became a Munro in 1981, but is quickly shooed back to the ranks.
Because of the high cost of most of the premium and standard slots, the conference also offers unique areas known as "New Technology Pavilion" booths where upstart companies can promote their product or service at the event.
Many Omayyad princes considered Merwan as an upstart, his mother being a slave-girl; the Damascenes were angry because he had chosen Harran for his residence; the Kalbites felt themselves slighted, as the Qaisites predominated.
This powerful upstart was the natural enemy of the nobility, who suffered much at his hands, though it is very difficult to determine whether the initiative in these prosecutions proceeded from him or his master.
Within a few months of this culminating triumph, she was threatened with utter ruin by the discovery of a supposed liaison with her gentleman of the bedchamber, William Mons, a handsome and unscrupulous upstart, and the brother of a former mistress of Peter.
It is recorded in 1298 as " an immemorial custom " in Provence that rich burghers enjoyed the honour of knighthood; and less than a century later we find Sacchetti complaining that the dignity is open to any rich upstart, however disreputable his antecedents.
Lethington had not left her, but he was overlooked; Lennox and the impracticable Darnley were neglected; and the dangerous earl of Morton, a Douglas, had to tremble for his lands and office as chancellor, while Mary rested on her foreign secretary, the upstart David Riccio; on Sir James Balfour, noted for falseness even in that age; and on Bothwell.
Thus he rewarded the Orthodox upstart, Prince Constantine Ortrogski, for his victory at Orsza by making him palatine of Troki, despite determined opposition from the Catholics; severely punished all disturbers of the worship of the Greek schismatics; protected the Jews in the country places, and insisted that the municipalities of the towns should be composed of an equal number of Catholics and Orthodox Greeks.
The bishoprics of Bremen and Verden, the province of Farther Pomerania and the isle of Riigen which her armies had actually conquered, and which had been guaranteed to her by a whole catena of treaties, went partly to the upstart electorate of Hanover and partly to the upstart kingdom of Prussia, both of which states had been of no political importance whatever at the beginning of the war of spoliation by which they were, ultimately, to profit so largely and so cheaply.