different between imperious vs snob

English

Etymology

From Latin imperi?sus (“mighty, powerful”), from imperium (“command, authority, power”)

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?m?p???i.?s/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?m?p??i.?s/
• Rhymes: -??ri?s

Adjective

imperious (not comparable)

1. Domineering, arrogant, or overbearing.
   • 1866 – Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Gambler, translated by C. J. Hogarth

     ...she glanced about her in an imperious, challenging sort of way, with looks and gestures that clearly were unstudied.

2. Urgent.
   • 1891 – Ambrose Bierce, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

     Circumstances of an imperious nature, which it is unnecessary to relate here, had prevented him from taking service with that gallant army which had fought the disastrous campaigns ending with the fall of Corinth.

3. (obsolete) Imperial or regal.
   • 1899 – Stephen Crane, The Angel Child, Whilomville Stories

     She was quick, beautiful, imperious, while he was quiet, slow, and misty.

Synonyms

• (domineering): authoritarian, bossy, dictatorial, domineering, overbearing

Related terms

Translations

English

Etymology

Late 18th century dialectical English snob (“cobbler”), of unknown origin. Early senses of the word carried the meaning of "lower status;" it was then used to describe those seeking to imitate those of higher wealth or status. Folk etymology derives it from the Latin phrase sine nobilitate (“without nobility”), but early uses had no connection to this.

The modern sense was popularized by William Makepeace Thackeray in The Book of Snobs (1848).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: sn?b, IPA^(key): /sn?b/
• (General American) enPR: sn?b, IPA^(key): /sn?b/
• Rhymes: -?b

Noun

snob (plural snobs)

1. (informal, derogatory) A person who wishes to be seen as a member of the upper classes and who looks down on those perceived to have inferior or unrefined tastes. [from 20th c.]
   • 1958, Arnold Wesker, Roots:

     If wanting the best things in life means being a snob then glory hallelujah I'm a snob.

2. (colloquial) A cobbler or shoemaker. [from 18th c.]
   • 1929, Frederic Manning, The Middle Parts of Fortune, Vintage 2014, p. 57:

     The snobs were also kind to him, and gave him a pair of boots which they assured him were of a type and quality reserved entirely for officers […]

3. (dated) A member of the lower classes; a commoner. [from 19th c.]
   • 1844, Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit:

     'D'ye know a slap-up sort of button, when you see it?' said the youth. 'Don't look at mine, if you ain't a judge, because these lions' heads was made for men of men of taste: not snobs.'

   • 1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Poison Belt:

     I tell you, sir, that I have a brain of my own, and that I should feel myself to be a snob and a slave if I did not use it.

4. (archaic) A workman who works for lower wages than his fellows, or who will not join a strike.
5. (Cambridge University) A townsman, as opposed to a gownsman.

   Synonym: cad

Coordinate terms

• posh
• social climber

Derived terms

• snobbery, snobbism
• snobbish
• snobby
• snobbiness
• snobbishness
• snobbishly
• snob effect
• snob value

Translations

Further reading

• snob on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “snob”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• “snob”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).

References

Anagrams

• BN(O)s, BNOs, BSON, bo's'n, bos'n, nobs

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English snob.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?p

Noun

snob m (plural snobs, diminutive snobje n)

1. snob

Anagrams

• bons

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English snob.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sn?b/

Adjective

snob (plural snobs)

1. snobbish, snobby

Noun

snob m or f (plural snobs)

1. snob

Derived terms

• snober
• snobinard
• snobisme
• snobissime

Further reading

• “snob” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• bons

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English snob.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?zn?b/

Noun

snob m (invariable)

1. snob

Adjective

snob (invariable)

1. snobbish

References

Polish

Etymology

From English snob.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sn?p/
• Homophone: snop

Noun

snob m pers (feminine snobka)

1. snob (person who seeks to be a member of the upper classes)

Declension

Derived terms

• (verbs) snobowa?, snobizowa?
• (noun) snobizm

Related terms

• (adjective) snobistyczny
• (adverb) snobistycznie

Further reading

• snob in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• snob in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

From French snob.

Adjective

snob m or n (feminine singular snob?, masculine plural snobi, feminine and neuter plural snobe)

1. snobbish

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from English snob.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /snôb/

Noun

sn?b m (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. snob

Declension

Slovak

Etymology

Borrowed from English snob.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sn?p/

Noun

snob m (genitive singular snoba, nominative plural snobi, genitive plural snobov, declension pattern of chlap)

1. snob

Declension

Derived terms

• snobka
• snobský
• snobsky
• snobstvo

Further reading

• snob in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk