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HIGH SOCIETY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does high society mean?
• HIGH SOCIETY (noun)
The noun HIGH SOCIETY has 1 sense:
1. the fashionable elite
Familiarity information: HIGH SOCIETY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The fashionable elite
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
beau monde; bon ton; high society; smart set; society
Hypernyms ("high society" is a kind of...):
elite; elite group (a group or class of persons enjoying superior intellectual or social or economic status)
Meronyms (members of "high society"):
Four Hundred (the exclusive social set of a city)
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