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Noun: snob  snób
  1. A person with pretensions to high social status and who looks down on people they think are beneath them
    "The snob refused to associate with anyone he deemed 'common'";
    - prig, snoot [informal]
     
  2. Someone who is pretentious about their tastes
    "He's such a wine snob, he won't drink anything under $50 a bottle"

Derived forms: snobs

Type of: disagreeable person, unpleasant person

Encyclopedia: Snob, The