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
Noun
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The Rats live fast and without fear, stealing from tax collectors and nobles.—
JP Mangalindan,
Time,
30 Oct. 2025
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Caesar is a conspiracy of nobles; the removal of hundreds of (alleged) Venezuelan gang members is the action of ICE.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
23 Oct. 2025
Noun
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From hot scientists to charming aristocrats to dancing princes, here are Bailey’s sexiest onscreen roles thus far.—
Emlyn Travis,
Entertainment Weekly,
4 Nov. 2025
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That’s realized quite literally by the prolific Swedish actor Stig Järrel, who plays Satan as an aristocrat in a state of perpetual ocular discomfort due to Britt-Marie’s insistence on holding onto her virginity.—
Keith Phipps,
Vulture,
31 Oct. 2025
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“Socialite.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/socialite. Accessed 14 Nov. 2025.
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