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High Society

Definition: High Society

High Society

Noun

1. The fashionable elite.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

 

Synonyms: High Society

Synonyms: beau monde (n), bon ton (n), smart set (n), society (n). (additional references)

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Specialty Definition: High Society

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

High Society was a film musical made in 1956.

It starred Bing Crosby , Grace Kelly and Frank Sinatra. Louis Armstrong and his jazz band sang the title song. The film was a remake of the 1940 classic The Philadelphia Story.

Other songs included:

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "High Society."

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Crosswords: High Society

English words defined with "high society": social. (references)

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Modern Usage: High Society

DomainUsage

Screenplays

There's a name for you ladies, but it isn't used in high society, outside of a kennel. (The Women; writing credit: Anita Loos)

Lyrics

She's high society ("She's So High"; performing artist: Tal Bachman)

Movie/TV Titles

High Society (1956)

Ham in High Society (1915)

High Society (1995)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: High Society

DomainTitle

Books

  • Capital Elites: High Society in Washington, D.C., After the Civil War (reference)

  • Notes from a Battered Grand: A Memoir/Fifty Years of Music, from Honky-Tonk to High Society (reference)

  • An Elegant Madness: High Society in Regency England (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: High Society

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

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341

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3

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177

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3

forum high society

24

high society band

2

high society mag

15

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2

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15

high society lyrics

2

fantasy high society

5

high society pic

2

high society movie

5

high society wedding

2

cs download high society

5

chat high society

2

high society girl

4

high society wife

2

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4

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2

flight high society

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: High Society

Language Translations for "high society"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Dutch

  

de hogere standen. (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

mondumo. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

mozog (get about, move, to exercise, to move, to move in high society, to spiral, to stir, to waggle), előkelő társaságban forog (to move in high society), előkelő társaságban (to move in high society). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

社交界 , ハイジャック防止法 (anti-highjack law, Haydn, HDTV, Heidelberg, heights, hibiscus, hiding, hi-fi, high heels, high jump, high pitch, high school, high tempo, high touch, highheeled shoes, high-necked, high-power, high-powered, high-speed, high-speed steel, high-tech, high-technology, Hi-Vision, Hyde Park, hydroculture, hydroplane, hydroplaning, hydroponics, hygenic cream, hyper, hypermarket, knee socks, late teens, refined taste, sensible), 上層階級 (upper classes). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ハイソサエティ , しゃ"うかい, じょうそうかいきゅう (upper classes). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ighhay ocietysay

   

Portuguese

  

altasociedade, altaroda. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

alta sociedad. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

sosyete (leisured, polite society, society, the people of quality). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: High Society

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-g-h-h-i-i-o-s-t-y"

-3 letters: egoistic, hygieist.

-4 letters: chigoes, eighths, gothics, heights, highest, hitches, hogties, hotches, hygeist, isohyet, society.

-5 letters: cestoi, chesty, cheths, chigoe, cities, coyest, coyish, egoist, eighth, eights, eighty, ethics, gestic, ghosty, gothic, goyish, height, heishi, hights, hogtie, iciest, itches, scythe, stogey, stogie, thighs, toyish.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-g-h-h-i-i-o-s-t-y"
 

+2 letters: ichthyologies.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: High Society


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

48 69 67 68      53 6F 63 69 65 74 79

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001000 01101001 01100111 01101000 00100000 01010011 01101111 01100011 01101001 01100101 01110100 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#105 &#103 &#104 &#32 &#83 &#111 &#99 &#105 &#101 &#116 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 0069 0067 0068      0053 006F 0063 0069 0065 0074 0079

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

42757374253816975718691

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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