as in noble
someone who is well-known in fashionable society and is often seen at parties and other social events for wealthy people
Many of the city's socialites showed up for the premiere gala.
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Recent Examples of socialite
As a snobbish actress and socialite stranded in a small town with no money O'Hara's Moira was an aloof delight over the series' rolicking six seasons.
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Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 10 May 2025
On Monday, Harris and her spouse Doug Emhoff made a surprise appearance at the annual Met Gala in New York City, joining celebrities and socialites in celebrating and supporting the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute.
—Brittany Shepherd, ABC News, 6 May 2025
Sánchez is also friends with Donald Trump, Jr.,’s girlfriend, Bettina Anderson, a Palm Beach socialite.
—Clare Malone, New Yorker, 12 May 2025
The killing came less than a year after Gucci, 46, had finalized his divorce with Patrizia Reggiani, an Italian socialite who first met the heir apparent to the Gucci fashion empire in 1970.
—Sean Neumann, People.com, 23 Apr. 2025
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Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 10 May 2025
On Monday, Harris and her spouse Doug Emhoff made a surprise appearance at the annual Met Gala in New York City, joining celebrities and socialites in celebrating and supporting the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute.
—Brittany Shepherd, ABC News, 6 May 2025
Sánchez is also friends with Donald Trump, Jr.,’s girlfriend, Bettina Anderson, a Palm Beach socialite.
—Clare Malone, New Yorker, 12 May 2025
The killing came less than a year after Gucci, 46, had finalized his divorce with Patrizia Reggiani, an Italian socialite who first met the heir apparent to the Gucci fashion empire in 1970.
—Sean Neumann, People.com, 23 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for socialite
Noun
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Despite its remote location, the 18th-century Georgian home was a stopover for a procession of nobles, actors, and writers, like Peter O’Toole, John Steinbeck, Marlon Brando, and Montgomery Clift.—
Erik Morse,
Vogue,
15 Apr. 2025
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The Board of Rites is tasked with making sure the ceremonies performed by the imperial nobles go off without a hitch, and its members have been dying throughout the series.—
Kayti Burt,
Time,
2 Apr. 2025
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And again summer approaches and one must sift through all those spoiling invitations that inevitably come rolling in when one is an indolent (and impoverished) European aristocrat — who needs to freeload off the rich and hardworking.—
James Fallon,
Footwear News,
24 May 2025
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Much of Emilia’s intellectual curiosity and confidence comes from her stepfather, a Spanish speaking schoolteacher who marries her pregnant mother, a novice Catholic nun abandoned after a romance with a wealthy Chilean aristocrat.—
Anita Snow,
Boston Herald,
9 May 2025
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“Socialite.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/socialite. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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