Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A young, fashionable, and usually wealthy person who is the subject of frequent media attention.
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- noun A young, usually female
socialite , especially one oflimited accomplishment , who is the focus of sufficientmedia attention andpublic interest to be regarded as acelebrity .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Possibly the first truly modern socialite, the word celebutante was coined by Walter Winchell specifically to describe her.
TheGloss Jennifer Wright 2010
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The celebutante is the new face of for a Spanish motorcycle team.
FOXNews.com foxnewsonline@foxnews.com 2010
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The celebutante is the new face of for a Spanish motorcycle team.
FOXNews.com foxnewsonline@foxnews.com 2010
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The celebutante is the new face of for a Spanish motorcycle team.
FOXNews.com 2010
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From the issues that I've read with Kate Kane in them, this look severely clashes with the 'celebutante' that we were introduced to.
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Long before Paris Hilton debased the concept of the "celebutante," Brenda Diana Duff Frazier was a glamorous rich girl famous for going to parties and not much else.
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And Paris, who already has trouble -- we have trouble sometimes figuring out who she is, or what she is, other than a "celebutante", the last thing she needs to be known as, forever, is a convict.
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Paris Hilton than as a "celebutante" or the frequent tabloid
WN.com - Articles related to Oprah Winfrey settles defamation legal action 2010
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Paris Hilton than as a "celebutante" or the frequent tabloid
WN.com - Articles related to Suu Kyi wants party to boycott Burma election 2010
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Paris Hilton than as a "celebutante" or the frequent tabloid
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