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striver

noun

Etymology

From strive + -er.

  1. derived from *stribēn✻ — “to strive”
  2. derived from *strībaną✻
  3. derived from *strīban✻ — “to exert, make an effort”
  4. derived from estriver — “to compete, quarrel”
  5. inherited from striven — “to strive”
  6. suffixed as striver — “strive + er”

Definitions

  1. One who strives.

    • I am angered not only by such bloodsucking selective memory, but also at another example of how gay "respectability"-strivers try to distance themselves from the nonconformists and fringe members of our movement.
    • The company’s namesake, Condé Montrose Nast, was a Gilded Age striver from St. Louis who purchased a sleepy society gazette called Vogue in 1909 and made it an arbiter of women’s fashion […].

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA