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noun
A person (often a woman) of social prominence, considered to be an influential figure.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A person who goes to fashionable parties and is often written about in the newspapers, etc.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
a socially prominent person
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: important person, influential person, personage
History
From social (“pertaining to high society”) + -ite, perhaps as a play on social light, in imitation of words in -ite.
Across languages
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