high society

See also: High Society

English

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 (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

• Arabic: مُجْتَمَع رَاقِيّ m (mujtamaʕ rāqiyy)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 上流社會／上流社会 (shàngliú shèhuì)

• Esperanto: mondumo (eo)
• Finnish: seurapiiri (fi)
• French: haute société (fr) f
• Georgian: მაღალი საზოგადოება (maɣali sazogadoeba)
• German: High Society (de) f, Hautevolee (de) f
• Japanese: 上流社会 (じょうりゅうしゃかい, jōryū shakai)
• Khmer: សង្គមជាន់ខ្ពស់ (sɑngkum cŏən khpŭəh)
• Korean: 상류사회(上流社會) (ko) (sangnyusahoe)
• Polish: wysokie sfery f pl
• Portuguese: alta sociedade f
• Romanian: înaltă societate f
• Russian: вы́сший свет m (výsšij svet), вы́сшее о́бщество (ru) n (výsšeje óbščestvo)
• Spanish: alta sociedad f, alta alcurnia f
• Swedish: överklass (sv) c, grädda (sv) c
• Volapük: lesogäd

See also

• beautiful people
• jet set
• socialite
• upper crust