beautiful people

noun

Definition of beautiful peoplenext
as in café society

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Recent Examples of beautiful people So many beautiful people worked on this project. — Jack Smart, PEOPLE, 21 Apr. 2026 This is the Olympics for the beautiful people. — Marisa Meltzer, Vanity Fair, 13 Mar. 2026 The theater was packed with young, beautiful people who cheered the dancers like Knicks fans. — Andrew Silow-Carroll, Sun Sentinel, 11 Mar. 2026 Newsrooms are sort of like the military or the police or the beautiful people at the FDNY down the street. — Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 8 June 2026 The characters are thin and the plot often ludicrous, but the sight of beautiful people making bad decisions is soothing enough to override one’s critical faculties. — Alison Herman, Variety, 19 June 2026 His recruiting focused on the beautiful people of the 1980s, so the screen fills with jet-setting supermodels and nights at Studio 54. — Stuart Miller, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2026 All the drama onscreen among beautiful people — with a cast including Anthony Boyle and Lola Petticrew — should make this an addictive watch for younger audience but one that even older ones can see themselves in. — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 25 May 2026 While the beautiful people always display youth (even if it’s paid for), the always original Benito Antonio Martinez Ocasio was unrecognizable, doubling his actual age of 32 with wizened grey hair, beard and bushy eyebrows, prosthetic wrinkles and a cane. — Merle Ginsberg, HollywoodReporter, 5 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for beautiful people
  1. haut monde
  2. jet set
  3. upper class
  4. beau monde
  5. A-list
  6. upper crust
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  • Sargent escaped the scandal by decamping from Paris to London, and Gautreau retreated from the haut monde.
    — Rachel Syme, New Yorker, 5 May 2026
Definition of haut monde
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  • More than an idyllic lakeside hamlet beloved by the international jet set, the northern Italian town of Como and the surrounding area are home to the country’s biggest silk-making districts, part of Italy’s fashion supply chain backbone.
    — Martino Carrera, Footwear News, 23 June 2026
  • The business jet set flew from Montreal, Canada, to Nice, France, in just over six hours.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 8 June 2026
Definition of jet set
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  • And the formal attire of the upper class continues to define the strict dress code today.
    — Sheena McKenzie, CNN Money, 19 June 2026
  • In the nineteenth century, upper class American women who had leisure time and literacy became really into keeping floral calendars to note when wildflowers bloomed.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 18 June 2026
Definition of upper class
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  • Recordings of the three men being interrogated provide the basis for flashbacks, and scenes set in Tehran’s artistic beau monde of the late sixties show the aftermath of their adventures.
    — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2026
  • The Villa Eugénie later became a luxury hotel, and to this day, the beau monde hold court at this seaside address.
    — Mary Winston Nicklin, AFAR Media, 20 Jan. 2026
Definition of beau monde
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  • Other celebrities like Kelsea Ballerini, Ed Sheeran and Jennifer Lopez were seen arriving earlier, proving that the wedding was an A-list affair.
    — Emily Trainham, FOXNews.com, 4 July 2026
  • A-list friends of Swift like Gigi Hadid, Hugh Grant and Ed Sheeran were also seen arriving at Madison Square Garden for the big event on Friday.
    — Natasha Dye, PEOPLE, 4 July 2026
Definition of A-list
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  • She’s being raised in upper crust Gilead society, tutored in a private girls’ school led by Aunt Lydia (Ann Dowd) for a potential prosperous husband, specifically one in the upper ranks of the military.
    — Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 27 May 2026
  • Link, whose real name is Dylan, helped to create Alex prior to the mass extinction event that sent the world's upper crust into Paradise.
    — Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Mar. 2026
Definition of upper crust

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