socialite

noun

so·​cial·​ite ˈsō-shə-ˌlīt How to pronounce socialite (audio)
: a socially prominent person

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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 The 56-year-old socialite moved there with her late husband, JR Ridinger, just months before his sudden death at age 63 in August 2022. Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 18 Apr. 2025 These events provide the loose skeleton of the plot of The Great Gatsby: Poor young James Gatz falls in love with the glamorous socialite Daisy, but doesn’t have enough money to marry her. Constance Grady, Vox, 7 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for socialite

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First Known Use

1909, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of socialite was in 1909

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“Socialite.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/socialite. Accessed 28 May. 2025.

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socialite

noun
so·​cial·​ite ˈsō-shə-ˌlīt How to pronounce socialite (audio)
: a person well-known in fashionable society

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