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so·cial·ite    Audio Help   [soh-shuh-lahyt] Pronunciation Key
–noun
a socially prominent person.

[Origin: 1925–30; social + -ite1]
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so·cial·ite    Audio Help   (sō'shə-līt')  Pronunciation Key 
n.   One prominent in fashionable society.

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socialite 
1928, probably a coinage among writers and editors at "Time" magazine, perhaps as a contraction of social light, in imitation of words in -ite.

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socialite

noun
a socially prominent person 

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