socialite

[ soh-shuh-lahyt ]
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noun
  1. a socially prominent person.

Origin of socialite

1
First recorded in 1925–30; social + -ite1

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British Dictionary definitions for socialite

socialite

/ (ˈsəʊʃəˌlaɪt) /


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

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