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SMART SET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does smart set mean? 

SMART SET (noun)
  The noun SMART SET has 1 sense:

1. the fashionable eliteplay

  Familiarity information: SMART SET used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SMART SET (noun)


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 ("smart set" is a kind of...):

elite; elite group (a group or class of persons enjoying superior intellectual or social or economic status)

Meronyms (members of "smart set"):

Four Hundred (the exclusive social set of a city)


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