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Definition of High society
1. Noun. The fashionable elite.
Member holonyms: Four Hundred
Generic synonyms: Elite, Elite Group
Definition of High society
1. Noun. The socially interacting wealthy fashionable elite of a society, especially in Western societies. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of High Society
Literary usage of High society
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Retrospection, Political and Personal by Hubert Howe Bancroft (1912)
"Hence vice flourishes among the idlers, and high society becomes the ... These,
the highest criminals in the land, are among the leaders in high society. ..."
2. Gilbert and Sullivan and Their Operas: With Recollections and Anecdotes of D by François Cellier, Cunningham Bridgeman (1914)
"... "—high society join in pit and gallery queues—In New York, tickets for first
night sold by auction. THE secrecy of the Savoy management, ..."
3. The Empire of the Tsars and the Russians by Anatole Leroy-Beaulieu, Zénaïde Alexeïevna Ragozin (1893)
"... —high society aiid the Aristocratic Circles—The French Language as a Social
Barrier—Cosmopolitism and Lack of Nationality. ON the Russian nobility the ..."
4. Harper's First [-sixth] Reader edited by Orville T. Bright, James Baldwin (1889)
"To a city, a county, and a river, Michigan has given his name. II. THE HIGH
SOCIETY OF INQUIRY. BY JG HOLLAND., IT must have been three weeks ..."
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