social register
High society roster
A social register is a directory listing prominent families in a community, traditionally used to establish who belongs to elite society.
The term often refers specifically to the Social Register, a publication tracking American high society since 1886.
To be in the social register suggests old money and established family connections rather than mere wealth.
- connectionsRelationships between things
- directoryFile system container
- membershipState of belonging
- inner circleExclusive group of confidants
- aristocracyRule by hereditary elite
debutante · cliques · blue blood · exclusivity clauses · old guard · Victorian era · bourgeoisie · Edwardian era · old money · family name · coming out · finishing school · private clubs · country club · pedigree · good breeding · alliances · nobility
- high societygossip, socialites, socialite, aristocrats, aristocrat
- Gilded AgeGilded Age, robber baron, robber barons, Carnegie, Rockefeller
- Victorian etiquettecalling hours, visiting cards, chaperoning, propriety, decorum
- old moneyold money, blue blood, trust fund, private wealth, endowment
- eliteelite, elites, aristocrats, nobility, best
- snobberysnob, snobbery, snooty, elitism, snoot
social registerunderclass
Lowest socioeconomic group
the masses · common people · riffraff · hoi polloi · plebeians
social registerphone book
Listing of local numbers
telephone directory · white pages · census · city directory · public record
social registerblacklist
Record of prohibited entities
criminal record · parish register · census · tax roll · hall of shame
social, register, socially, sociable, sociability, unsociable, antisocial, asocial, socialize