an intellectual snob

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• snob — [snäb] n. [orig. dial. “boy, cobbler s boy” < ?] 1. Obs. a person having no wealth or social rank; one of the common people 2. a person who attaches great importance to wealth, social position, etc., having contempt for those whom he considers …   English World dictionary

• snob — [[t]snɒ̱b[/t]] snobs 1) N COUNT (disapproval) If you call someone a snob, you disapprove of them because they admire upper class people and have a low opinion of lower class people. Going to a private school and spending weekends with other… …   English dictionary

• snob — noun (C) 1 someone who thinks they are better than people from a lower social class and dislikes being with them or doing the things they do: John wouldn t go to a football match, he s too much of a snob. 2 intellectual snob someone who thinks… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• snob — [[t]snɒb[/t]] n. 1) a person who imitates, cultivates, or slavishly admires social superiors and is condescending to others 2) a person who believes himself or herself to have superior tastes and is condescending toward those with different… …   From formal English to slang

• snob — n. 1 a a person with an exaggerated respect for social position or wealth and who despises socially inferior connections. b (attrib.) related to or characteristic of this attitude. 2 a person who behaves with servility to social superiors. 3 a… …   Useful english dictionary

• snob — [snɔb US sna:b] n [Date: 1800 1900; Origin: snob shoemaker, person of low social rank (18 19 centuries)] 1.) someone who thinks they are better than people from a lower social class used to show disapproval ▪ Stop being such a snob. ▪ I don t… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• Snob — A snob, guilty of snobbery, is someone who adopts the worldview that some people are inherently inferior to him/her for any one of a variety of reasons, including real or supposed intellect, wealth, education, ancestry, etc.Fact|date=May 2007… …   Wikipedia

• snob hit — n. A play or movie that many people see only because they feel it has a certain intellectual cachet, or because they feel that doing so would impress other people. Example Citation: Since Midnight s Children clocks in at three and a quarter hours …   New words

• snob —    This is a word of obscure origin which began by being a term in slang for a shoemaker. In the early part of the nineteenth century, chiefly due to William Thackeray, the word began to acquire something like its modern meaning of one who looks… …   A dictionary of epithets and terms of address

• snob — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. sycophant, toady, fawner, bounder, upstart; parvenu, social climber. See servility, vulgarity.Ant., aristocrat, democrat. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. elitist, highbrow, mandarin, Brahmin, stuffed shirt*,… …   English dictionary for students

• highbrow — highbrowism, n. /huy brow /, n. 1. a person of superior intellectual interests and tastes. 2. a person with intellectual or cultural pretensions; intellectual snob. 3. the crestfish. adj. 4. Also, highbrowed. of, pertaining to, or characteristic… …   Universalium