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socialite

[soh-shuh-lahyt]

noun

  1. a socially prominent person.



socialite

/ ˈəʊʃəˌɪ /

noun

  1. a person who is or seeks to be prominent in fashionable society

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of socialite1

First recorded in 1925–30; social + -ite 1
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“Party Girl” and its star defined cool for the ’90s, well before the club scene was taken over by rich and famous socialites a decade later.

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But she calls her latest role, as a “wild” suburban socialite on NBC’s new series “Grosse Point Garden Society,” an “actor’s dream.”

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She said in the year 2000, she met Maxwell, a British socialite.

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The US actress was best known for playing Buffy the Vampire Slayer's younger sister Dawn Summers, and later took on the role of manipulative socialite Georgina Sparks in Gossip Girl as an adult.

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“The experience of playing a socialite means you are in the hair and makeup chair far longer than you are when you’re playing a detective,” said Fumero, laughing.

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