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
When the New York Times recently posted a fluffy profile of billionaire socialite Lauren Sánchez Bezos, Katie Couric couldn’t resist.
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Michael Schneider, Variety, 22 Apr. 2026
The debate went nowhere until the mid-17th century, when a French gambler and intellectual socialite enlisted the help of mathematician Blaise Pascal.
—Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 19 Apr. 2026
The backstory Il Pellicano begins with a love story, that of Michael Graham, a Royal Air Force aviator, and Patsy Daszel, an American socialite, who met in the mid-1950s at a party in Pelican Point, California.
—Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Apr. 2026
Troop Beverly Hills centered on Phyllis Nefler (Long), a Beverly Hills socialite going through a divorce who decides to lead a troop of scouts.
—Ryan Gajewski, HollywoodReporter, 8 Apr. 2026
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Michael Schneider, Variety, 22 Apr. 2026
The debate went nowhere until the mid-17th century, when a French gambler and intellectual socialite enlisted the help of mathematician Blaise Pascal.
—Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 19 Apr. 2026
The backstory Il Pellicano begins with a love story, that of Michael Graham, a Royal Air Force aviator, and Patsy Daszel, an American socialite, who met in the mid-1950s at a party in Pelican Point, California.
—Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Apr. 2026
Troop Beverly Hills centered on Phyllis Nefler (Long), a Beverly Hills socialite going through a divorce who decides to lead a troop of scouts.
—Ryan Gajewski, HollywoodReporter, 8 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for socialite
Noun
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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
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The son of Italian nobles, Baldassare Castiglione’s main claim to fame was writing a book of etiquette based on his experience as a courtier, a person who serves as an attendant to a king, queen, or other member of a royal family.—
René Ostberg,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
7 May 2026
Noun
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Scuffed and pockmarked, the painting looked stoic but stripped of dignity, like an old aristocrat in a hospital gown.—
Sebastian Smee,
The Atlantic,
16 May 2026
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Alibert gained notoriety for her affair with the Prince of Wales, later King Edward VIII and then Duke of Windsor, in 1917 while he was stationed in Paris, and then for shooting dead her wealthy Egyptian aristocrat husband Ali Kamel Fahmy Bey in The Savoy Hotel in London in 1923.—
Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
16 May 2026
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“Socialite.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/socialite. Accessed 21 May. 2026.
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