high society
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See also: High Society
Noun
high society (usually uncountable, plural high societies)
- 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
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