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Socialite

Definition: Socialite

Socialite

Noun

1. A socially prominent person.

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

 

Crosswords: Socialite

Non-English Usage: "Socialite" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Portuguese (socialite).

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Commercial Usage: Socialite

DomainTitle

Books

  • Electra II : Electra Waggoner Biggs, socialite, sculptor, ranch heiress (reference)

  • Socialite Evenings (reference)

  • The Socialite and the Holy Man: An Unlikely Spiritual Odyssey (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  • St. Augustine: The Socialite & The Politician-City Confidential (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

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

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Usage Frequency: Socialite

"Socialite" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 97.50% of the time. "Socialite" is used about 40 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)97.5%3955,036
Noun (proper)2.5%1339,140
                    Total100.00%40N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Socialite

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

socialite

20

paris hilton socialite

6

casey johnson socialite

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

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Modern Translation: Socialite

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

Albanian

  

personalitet shoqëror, njeri i shquar (Don, notability, notable, personage, personality, standout). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏عضو بارز في المجتمع, ‏إجتماعي (friendly, gregarious, man about town, public, social). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

човек от хайлайфа, човек от висшето общество. (various references)

   

Czech

  

svìták (Dandy, fashion-monger, fop, playboy, worldling), prominent (notable). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

معاشر (Sociable), شخص مقتدردرجامعه , شخص طرازاول جامعه . (various references)

   

French

  

personnalité mondaine. (various references)

   

German

  

salonlöwe (social lion, society man), Prominente (celebrity, prominent, prominent figure, vip, well-known people), partylöwe. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κοσμικόσ άνθρωποσ, μέλοσ τησ υψηλήσ κοιωνίασ. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

איש "חבר" "'בו"". (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

társaságbeli, felsõ tízezer tagja. (various references)

   

Italian

  

persona mondana. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ocialitesay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

socialite. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

persoanã importantã (grandee, great gun, it, personage, personality). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

светский человек (clubman, corinthian, man about town, man of fashion), занимающий высокий пост, лицо (affirmant, alienee, arrester, caster of accounts, chiropodist, decision-maker, dedicatee, deputy sheriff, disorderly person, disseisee, donatory, draft dodger, earner, face, fat cat, front, kisser, licensee, misdemeanant, negotiator, obligor, person, persons, phiz, pollster, promisee, promisor, public servant, visage, warrantee, warrantor). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

član višeg društva. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

mundano (earthly, fashionable, mundane, profanely, secular, society person, swinger, worldly). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

societetslejon. (various references)

   

Thai

  

คนเ"่นในสังคม. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

sosyetenin renkli siması. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

людина, що належить до вищого світу. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Socialite

Derivations

Words beginning with "socialite": socialites. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Socialite"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "socialite" (pronounced sō"shulī't)
4-u l ī' tacolyte, cryolite, impolite, lazulite, niccolite, satellite.
3-l ī' tbacklight, candlelight, daylight, flashlight, floodlight, headlight, highlight, inflight, limelight, moonlight, overflight, searchlight, skylight, spotlight, starlight, stoplight, sunlight, twilight.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Socialite

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-i-l-o-s-t"

-1 letter: ciliates, coaliest, silicate, societal.

-2 letters: aloetic, celosia, ciliate, citolas, citoles, colitis, elastic, elicits, iolites, isolate, italics, laciest, lactose, laicise, laities, latices, locates, oiliest, solicit, stoical, talcose.

-3 letters: aiolis, atelic, castle, cestoi, cities, citola, citole, cleats, closet, coatis, coital, colies, costae, costal, eclats, elicit, iciest, iolite, italic, liaise, locate, osteal, saltie, scotia, sialic, silica.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-i-i-l-o-s-t"
 

+1 letter: egoistical, localities, socialites, vocalities.

 

+2 letters: actinolites, bisectional, callosities, coevalities, conciliates, egotistical, loquacities, socialities.

 

+3 letters: bibliothecas, borosilicate, catholicizes, cleistogamic, coequalities, comicalities, cordialities, declinations, domiciliates, egoistically, elicitations, elucidations, equinoctials, exorcistical, explications, felicitators, fictionalise, iconolatries, jocularities, lectionaries, logicalities, maledictions, neorealistic, nonrealistic, replications, sectionalism, semitropical, speciational, topicalities, tropicalizes, valedictions, vesiculation, viscoelastic.

 

+4 letters: acetonitriles, anticlockwise, associatively, bacteriolysis, bisectionally, borosilicates, calorimetries, catholicities, ceremonialist, cleistogamies, climatologies, coilabilities, colinearities, commercialist, commonalities, communalities, conjugalities, coplanarities, coresidential, corporalities, creolizations, deglaciations, egotistically, felicitations, fictionalised, fictionalises, fictionalizes, gesticulation, histochemical, incompatibles, intersocietal, isometrically, liquefactions, microclimates, neoclassicist, neoplasticism, neoplasticist, nonspecialist, oracularities, parfocalities, personalistic, pictorializes, pictorialness, politicalizes, prehistorical, regionalistic, reticulations, sectionalisms, semipolitical, semitonically, sociabilities, valedictories, vesiculations, viceroyalties, vivisectional, volcanicities.

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

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INDEX

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


  

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