/ snɒb; NAmE snɑːb/ noun ( disapproving )
1.
a person who admires people in the higher social classes too much and has no respect for people in the lower social classes :
She's such a snob!
2.
a person who thinks they are much better than other people because they are intelligent or like things that many people do not like :
an intellectual snob
a food / wine, etc. snob
There is a snob value in driving the latest model.
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WORD ORIGIN
late 18th cent. (originally dialect in the sense cobbler ): of unknown origin; early senses conveyed a notion of “lower status or rank”, later denoting a person seeking to imitate those of superior social standing or wealth. Folk etymology connects the word with Latin sine nobilitate without nobility but the first recorded sense has no connection with this.