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–noun

a socially prominent person.

[Origin: 1925–30; social + -ite¹

]

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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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