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socialite - 3 dictionary results

so⋅cial⋅ite

  [soh-shuh-lahyt]
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–noun
a socially prominent person.
Origin:
1925–30; social + -ite 1
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so·cial·ite   (sō'shə-līt')   
n.  One prominent in fashionable society.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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