socialite

From social (“pertaining to high society”) +‎ -ite, perhaps as a play on social light, in imitation of words in -ite.^[1]

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsoʊʃəˌlaɪt/

• Audio (Southern England):

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socialite (plural socialites)

1. A person (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.
   • 2008, Mike Cooley, Lisa's Birthday:

     Goodnight all you socialites don't wait up for me.

• socialite on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Aeolistic, aeolistic

Unadapted borrowing from English socialite.

• Hyphenation: so‧ci‧a‧li‧te

socialite m or f by sense (plural socialites)

1. socialite

• “socialite”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “socialite”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

• socialité

Borrowed from English socialite.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsouʃalait/ [ˈsou̯.ʃa.lai̯t̪], /ˈsouʃolait/ [ˈsou̯.ʃo.lai̯t̪], /ˈsouʃelait/ [ˈsou̯.ʃe.lai̯t̪]
  • Rhymes: -ouʃalait, -ouʃolait, -ouʃelait
• IPA^(key): /soθjaliˈte/ [so.θja.liˈt̪e] (Spain, Equatorial Guinea, French influenced hypercorrection)
• IPA^(key): /sosjaliˈte/ [so.sja.liˈt̪e] (Latin America, Philippines, French influenced hypercorrection)
  • Rhymes: -e
• Syllabification: so‧cia‧lite

socialite m or f by sense (plural socialites)

1. socialite

• socialite/socialité | FundéuRAE (fundeu.es)