Crossword clues for socialite
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1928, first in "Time" magazine, from social (adj.) in the "pertaining to high society" sense, perhaps as a play on social light, in imitation of words in -ite (1).
Wiktionary
n. 1 a person (more often a woman) of social prominence, considered to be an influential figure 2 a person who goes to fashionable parties and is often written about in the newspapers, etc.
WordNet
n. a socially prominent person
Wikipedia
A socialite is a person (usually from a privileged, wealthy, or aristocratic background), who has a largely known reputation and a high social position in upper class society. A socialite spends a significant amount of time attending various fashionable social gatherings.
Usage examples of "socialite".
Socialites from all over the state perked up, now that the doyenne of charitable functions was back in town.
Her escort was one Peter Hynd, described as an Old Westminster and socialite.
On July 20, 2001, novice writer Vanessa Leggett was found in contempt of court by a federal district court judge and sent to prison for an indefinite term for refusing to surrender a portion of her interviews for an upcoming book about the 1997 murder of Texas socialite Doris Angleton, the wife of millionaire bookie Robert Angleton.
If you run into an aging socialite by the name of Valuta Ulgart, you might introduce yourself.
Familiar faces hove into view, some known personally, some known at the intimate remove of modern celebrityhood, local media types tanned and satisfied, a sprinkling of higher-magnitude stars down from the mountain in Aspen, the socialite grouper fish, the trolling politicos, and the renowned and endowed from the glamorous world of adult entertainment, all the well-connected folk you could ever hope to rig a hot wire to.
Obstinate, hardheaded, determined socialite, traveling the world at her own speed, unwilling to compromise her lifestyle in favor of some criminal who has the audacity to threaten her son.
Even though they were now scorched, torn and streaked with dirt and vomit, they still looked like the garb of a city socialite rather than a fighting northside rebel.
I want to know why a ranking policeman has a crush on a Commie socialite.
Willowsville is a sociable suburb where weekends are like riding the surf, party after party, as local socialite and cochair of Thirtieth Reunion Committee Millicent Leroux Pifer thoughtfully observed, "I scare when I'm alone.
The fad spread over the world, and in Buenos Aires, London, and Berlin no socialite attended a dansant without a corsage of the Rainbows, as the blooms came to be called.
Both the manager, a Southampton socialite and divorcée named Penny Pierce, and the boy who cut the mats and framed (and framed and framed) all day were there.
The couple at the next table appeared to be straight, with the self-conscious glossiness of Marin socialites having a night on the town.
The Riviera, with its jet-setters and high-roller socialites, has been drug-dealer heaven for a long, long time.
Rutter wasn't sure about her, and with two answers, just six words, she had him adrift, thinking she could be anything from a Manhattan socialite worried about a kidnap threat against her kids, to a billionaire's wife intending to inherit early, to a Rotary wife aiming to survive a messy love triangle.
He was a master of Tae Kwon Do, able to drink hard all night without losing his edge or suffering a hangover, a chess master who had once defeated Bobby Fisher when they encountered each other in a hurricane-hammered resort hotel in Barbados, a lover of such prowess that a beautiful blond socialite had killed another woman over him in a fit of jealousy, a collector of vintage Corvettes who was able to rebuild them from the ground up, and a brooding philosopher who knew that humanity was doomed but who gamely fought the .