snobnoun [ C ]
uk/snɒb/us/snɑːb/disapprovingC2 a person who respects and likes only people who are of a high social class, and/or a person who has extremely high standards who is not satisfied by the things that ordinary people like:
He's a terrible snob - if you haven't been to the right school he probably won't even speak to you.
I'm a bit of a wine snob/a snob where wine is concerned.
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Class & class-consciousness in general
- arriviste
- bougie
- bourgeois
- class struggle
- class-conscious
- high society
- Hooray Henry
- inverted snob
- lower class
- lowest common denominator
- polarize
- prole
- proletarian
- riff-raff
- Sloane Ranger
- underclass
- untouchable
- upper class
- upwardly mobile
- well bred
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