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BEAU MONDE

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Dictionary entry overview: What does beau monde mean?

• BEAU MONDE (noun)
The noun BEAU MONDE has 1 sense:

1. the fashionable elite

Familiarity information: BEAU MONDE used as a noun is very rare.

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• BEAU MONDE (noun)

Sense 1

beau monde ^{[BACK TO TOP]}

Meaning:

The fashionable elite

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

beau monde; bon ton; high society; smart set; society

Hypernyms ("beau monde" is a kind of...):

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

Meronyms (members of "beau monde"):

Four Hundred (the exclusive social set of a city)

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