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
Amelia and Liza are well-known as socialites in the UK, and also work as models.
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Séraphine Roger, Vanity Fair, 23 May 2026
The younger Trump and his fiancee, Florida socialite Bettina Anderson, are due to wed on Saturday in the Bahamas.
—Naomi Lim, The Washington Examiner, 22 May 2026
Someone Else's Husband by Kimberly McCreight Gretchen Falk, a Park Avenue socialite with a seemingly perfect life, becomes entangled in a crisis when her husband Richard joins a Mount Kilimanjaro expedition that ends in tragedy and scandal.
—Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 22 May 2026
Von Mierers was a Manhattan socialite, who used his wealth and status to cultivate a devoted following of up-and-coming models and young professionals in 1980s New York City.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 19 May 2026
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Séraphine Roger, Vanity Fair, 23 May 2026
The younger Trump and his fiancee, Florida socialite Bettina Anderson, are due to wed on Saturday in the Bahamas.
—Naomi Lim, The Washington Examiner, 22 May 2026
Someone Else's Husband by Kimberly McCreight Gretchen Falk, a Park Avenue socialite with a seemingly perfect life, becomes entangled in a crisis when her husband Richard joins a Mount Kilimanjaro expedition that ends in tragedy and scandal.
—Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 22 May 2026
Von Mierers was a Manhattan socialite, who used his wealth and status to cultivate a devoted following of up-and-coming models and young professionals in 1980s New York City.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 19 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for socialite
Noun
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One of these high-ranking British nobles was the Earl of Euston.—
Stephanie Nolasco , Ashley Papa,
FOXNews.com,
1 June 2026
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Past the violin was an oil painting of the child Mozart entertaining nobles at the Maison du Temple.—
Michael Schulman,
New Yorker,
18 May 2026
Noun
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One only has to think about the British fight against Nazism to be reminded that it was made of imperialists, constitutionalists, stick-in-the-mud aristocrats, and the socialists who first helped put Winston Churchill into power and then five years later helped push him out again.—
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
8 June 2026
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The 66-year-old aristocrat now lives in a five-bedroom farmhouse on the King’s Sandringham Estate in Norfolk, England.—
Brian Niemietz,
New York Daily News,
6 June 2026
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“Socialite.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/socialite. Accessed 11 Jun. 2026.
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