upstart
English
noun
Definitions
- One who has suddenly gained wealth, power, or other prominence, but either has not received social acceptance or has become arrogant or presumptuous.
- The meadow saffron.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English upstarten affix from English start.
Origin
English
start
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- astart English
- autostart English
- blackstart English
- deadstart English
- forestart English
- kick start English
- misstart English
- multi-start English
- outstart English
- prestart English
- quickstart English
- redstart English
- restart English
- start English
- startable English
- startbox English
- starter English
- startest English
- starteth English
- startful English
- startish English
- startle English
- startline English
- startness English
- startscum English
- startword English
- tostart English
- unstart English
- whitestart English
- startata Finnish
- startti Finnish
- starten German
- start Dutch, Flemish
- старт Russian
- start Norwegian Bokmål
- starte Norwegian Bokmål
- start Swedish
- スタート Japanese
- start Polish
- start Norwegian Nynorsk
- starta Norwegian Nynorsk
- stert Middle English
- upstarten Middle English
- start Danish
- starte Danish
- start Czech
- start Turkish
- stèrter Norman
- štart Slovak
- start Crimean Tatar