high society

See also: High Society

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high society (social class)

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Noun

high society (usually uncountable, plural high societies)

1. The socially interacting wealthy fashionable elite of a society, especially in Western societies.

   Synonyms: the quality, upper class, upper crust

   • 1921, Aldous Huxley, chapter II, in Crome Yellow‎, London: Chatto & Windus:

     “‘What are the gaieties of the Rich, the splendours of the Powerful, what is the pride of the Great, what are the gaudy pleasures of High Society?’”

   • 1969, Joe Bataan (lyrics and music), “Ordinary Guy”:

     Exclusive nightclubs are out of style with me / 'Cause I don't associate with high society

Descendants

• → German: High Society

Translations

the socially interacting wealthy fashionable elite of a society

Arabic: مُجْتَمَع رَاقِيّ m (mujtamaʕ rāqiyy) Chinese: Mandarin: 上流社會／上流社会 (shàngliú shèhuì) Esperanto: mondumo (eo) Finnish: seurapiiri (fi) French: haute société (fr) f Georgian: მაღალი საზოგადოება (maɣali sazogadoeba) German: High Society (de) f, Hautevolee (de) f Japanese: 上流社会 (じょうりゅうしゃかい, jōryū shakai) Khmer: សង្គមជាន់ខ្ពស់ (sɑngkum cŏən khpŭəh) Korean: 상류사회(上流社會) (ko) (sangnyusahoe) Polish: wysokie sfery f pl Portuguese: alta sociedade f Romanian: înaltă societate f Russian: вы́сший свет m (výsšij svet), вы́сшее о́бщество (ru) n (výsšeje óbščestvo) Spanish: alta sociedad f, alta alcurnia f Swedish: överklass (sv) c, grädda (sv) c Volapük: lesogäd

See also

• beautiful people
• jet set
• socialite
• upper crust