glitterati

singular glitteratus

1. pluralplural normallyCelebrities or people with a lot of money; the smart set.

   The far-right glitterati were not impressed with Trump’s Epstein jiu-jitsu.

   2025 July 16, Ryan Bort and Asawin Suebsaeng, “Trump calls Epstein conspiracy a ‘hoax’ and turns on Maga ‘weaklings’”, in Rolling Stone, archived from the original on 16 Jul 2025

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   Fifty Seven Fifty Seven—The country's entertainment-industry glitterati make themselves right at home at I. M. Pei's monumental dining room.

   1997 June 2, “Restaurants”, in New York, volume 30, number 21, page 132

   “Where can we find a celebrity, and fast?” “Well, this is Staten Island, which is a veritable playground for the glitterati.”

   2022 August 9, Ayo Edebiri & Shana Gohd, “Private School” (16:03 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows, season 4, episode 5, spoken by Laszlo Cravensworth (Matt Berry)