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
The former British socialite, daughter of the late, disgraced billionaire publisher Robert Maxwell, is trying to get out of prison.
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Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News, 22 July 2025
That was the case with ‘New Order,’ ‘After Lucia,’ even with ‘Dreams’ [about a romance between a socialite and a Mexican ballet dancer].
—Marta Balaga, Variety, 10 July 2025
The socialite has a tradition of wearing the brand’s signature hot pink outfits.
—Renan Botelho, Footwear News, 8 July 2025
The first classic of the summer noir genre is no doubt René Clément’s adaptation of the Patricia Highsmith novel The Talented Mr. Ripley about a young American upstart who travels to Italy and murders a wealthy socialite before stealing his identity and seducing his wife.
—Erik Morse, Vogue, 26 June 2025
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Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News, 22 July 2025
That was the case with ‘New Order,’ ‘After Lucia,’ even with ‘Dreams’ [about a romance between a socialite and a Mexican ballet dancer].
—Marta Balaga, Variety, 10 July 2025
The socialite has a tradition of wearing the brand’s signature hot pink outfits.
—Renan Botelho, Footwear News, 8 July 2025
The first classic of the summer noir genre is no doubt René Clément’s adaptation of the Patricia Highsmith novel The Talented Mr. Ripley about a young American upstart who travels to Italy and murders a wealthy socialite before stealing his identity and seducing his wife.
—Erik Morse, Vogue, 26 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for socialite
Noun
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However, to prevent the glass furnaces from causing fires, the nobles exiled the glassmakers – under penalty of death – to the island of Murano.—
Peter Mullner,
The Conversation,
3 July 2025
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Landscape paintings and portraits of nobles jostled for attention alongside historical paintings and imagined scenes from Shakespeare’s plays.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
17 July 2025
Noun
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Bellucci plays Giulio’s mother, a woman from the central Italian region of Umbria – which is where Bellucci comes from in real life – who is married to a Sicilian aristocrat.—
Nick Vivarelli,
Variety,
29 July 2025
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This wealthy municipality west of Lisbon was a turn-of-the-century haunt for aristocrats in search of its therapeutic thermal waters, before finding wartime fame in the 1940s as a den of espionage on both sides thanks to Portugal’s neutrality.—
Zoë Dare Hall,
Forbes.com,
18 July 2025
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“Socialite.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/socialite. Accessed 7 Aug. 2025.
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