snob

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a person who respects and likes only people who are of a high social class, and/or a person who has extremely high standards who is not satisfied by the things that ordinary people like:

He's a terrible snob - if you haven't been to the right school he probably won't even speak to you.

I'm a bit of a wine snob/a snob where wine is concerned.

a person who judges the importance of people mainly by their social position or wealth, and who believes social position or wealth makes one person better than others

A snob can also be a person who gives a very high value to any quality which that person believes makes him or her better than other people:

intellectual snobs