socialite
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of socialite
Explanation
A socialite is someone who spends a lot of time in fashionable social circles. A socialite gets invited to all the best parties and says yes to all of them. When you talk to other people, you're being social. A socialite is a person who loves being social, especially in circles that are in the public eye. A socialite goes to the fanciest parties and the most expensive restaurants. A socialite dates famous people and goes where photographers can take their picture. A socialite is always making the scene. In many ways, socialites are the opposite of hermits or recluses.
Vocabulary lists containing socialite
We the People: Soc
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Missing May
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Example Sentences
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Yi Won-kon, a professor emeritus of fine arts who advised Roh in the center’s early days, said he had initially doubted a wealthy socialite without formal training in media-art theory could succeed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
Donald Trump Jr. is getting married this weekend to socialite Bettina Anderson.
From Slate ● May 23, 2026
Zampolli is an Italian-American socialite, businessman and founder of a modelling agency, who claims to have introduced Trump to his current wife Melania Trump.
From Barron's ● Apr. 23, 2026
Lawson was one of four children born to politician Nigel Lawson and socialite Vanessa Salmon, growing up in London before studying languages at Oxford University.
From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2026
The climax of Madame Curie’s visit was a glittering reception at the White Elouse attended by Meloney and the cream of Washington society, including Theodore Roosevelt’s socialite daughter Alice Roosevelt Longworth.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
He called himself the Fashion Whisperer of Boston and for years outfitted socialites and the wives of Red Sox players as a stylist at the city’s Saks Fifth Avenue store.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025
Lawyers for Epstein's estate also handed over copies of his address book, which contained contact details from 1990 to 2019 for a host of celebrities, royals, fashion designers, business figures, socialites and politicians.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2025
“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.
From Salon ● Jun. 9, 2025
Two 20-year-old socialites and besties abandon their lives in Los Angeles to live in rural, blue-collar America.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2024
May’s funeral turned Ob and me into temporary sort-of socialites, and we never really got the chance to howl and pull our hair out.
From "Missing May" by Cynthia Rylant
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