high society

See also: High Society

English

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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[1], 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, “Ordinary Guy”:
      Exclusive nightclubs are out of style with me / 'Cause I don't associate with high society

Descendants

  • → German: High Society

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