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Socialite vs Socialist - What's the difference?

socialite | socialist |

As nouns the difference between socialist and socialite

is that socialist is one who practices or advocates socialism while socialite is a person (more often a woman) of social prominence, considered to be an influential figure.

As an adjective socialist

is of, promoting, practicing, or characteristic of socialism.

socialite

English

Noun

(wikipedia socialite) (en noun)
  • a person (more often a woman) of social prominence, considered to be an influential figure
  • a person who goes to fashionable parties and is often written about in the newspapers, etc.
  • socialist

    English

    (Socialism)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of, promoting, practicing, or characteristic of socialism.
  • * 1848 , , Principles of Political Economy , Book II, Chapter 1:
  • ... it must be remembered that in a Socialist farm or manufactory, each labourer would be under the eye not of one master, but of the whole community.
  • * 1949 , , "Why Socialism?", Monthly Review , May 1949:
  • I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by an educational system which would be oriented toward social goals.

    Derived terms

    * Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who practices or advocates socialism.
  • * 1848 , , Principles of Political Economy , Book II, Chapter 1:
  • A contest, who can do most for the common good, is not the kind of competition which Socialists repudiate.

    See also

    * capitalist * communist * leftist * leninist * maoist * marxist * stalinist English words suffixed with -ist ----