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snob
A snob is a person who believes there is a correlation between social status and human worth.〔De Botton, A. (2004), ''Status Anxiety''. London: Hamish Hamilton〕 The term also refers to a person who believes that some people are inherently inferior to him or her for any one of a variety of reasons, including real or supposed intellect, wealth, education, ancestry, power, physical strength, class, taste, beauty, nationality, fame, extreme success of a family member or friend, etc. Both definitions are used as a pejorative.
==Etymology==
The word "snobbery" came into use the first time in England during the 1820s. It allegedly originated from the habit of many Oxford and Cambridge colleges of writing ''sine nobilitate'' (Latin: "without nobility") or ''s. nob.'' next to the names of ordinary students on examination lists in order to distinguish them from their aristocratic schoolmates.〔 The French version of the Latin phrase though is much more accepted: ''sans noblesse'', essentially the same but derived from the Plantagenets' rule of England. Common – but typically wealthy – students would then acquire symbols of aristocratic status (driver, maid etc.), and were then mocked as "snobs" by the aristocrats. After the later changing of the meaning of the term "snob", people who emulate aristocrats are now called "snob victims."
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