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
In Dreams, Franco recalls a resourceful Chastain raiding her closet at home for luxury costumes to play a wealthy socialite on set.
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Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 30 Oct. 2025
Enter Harriet Hemenway and her cousin Minna Hall, two Boston socialites who read about the egret slaughter and decided enough was enough.
—Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 23 Oct. 2025
Elizabeth Willing Powel was a well-to-do Philadelphia socialite, one of many characters in the series Burns highlights whose stories have been all but erased from the popular history of the time.
—Carlo Versano, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
Completed in the mid-1950s by master builder Joe Pawling for wealthy Illinois philanthropists and socialites George and Marcia Barrett, Holden occupied the digs from 1966 to 1977.
—Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 21 Oct. 2025
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Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 30 Oct. 2025
Enter Harriet Hemenway and her cousin Minna Hall, two Boston socialites who read about the egret slaughter and decided enough was enough.
—Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 23 Oct. 2025
Elizabeth Willing Powel was a well-to-do Philadelphia socialite, one of many characters in the series Burns highlights whose stories have been all but erased from the popular history of the time.
—Carlo Versano, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
Completed in the mid-1950s by master builder Joe Pawling for wealthy Illinois philanthropists and socialites George and Marcia Barrett, Holden occupied the digs from 1966 to 1977.
—Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 21 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for socialite
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VIPs included Princesse Lamballe of Italy and the Polignacs, a family of French nobles, including her bestie, the Duchesse de Polignac, along with an attractive buffet of artists, musicians, and actors.—
Serena Turner,
Vanity Fair,
29 Dec. 2025
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Jonathan Richardson the Elder apprenticed under John Riley, the court painter of English king William of Orange, and made a fine living as a portrait painter of various nobles and notables throughout the first half of the 1700s.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
22 Dec. 2025
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The Dracula of Bram Stoker’s novel, a sophisticated aristocrat, remains, like his forebears, an unwelcome stranger.—
Rivka Galchen,
New Yorker,
7 Jan. 2026
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Yasmin exited finance altogether, embracing her destiny as the socialite bride-to-be of blue-blooded aristocrat Henry Muck (Kit Harington).—
Alison Herman,
Variety,
6 Jan. 2026
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“Socialite.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/socialite. Accessed 9 Jan. 2026.
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