woman about town
Stylish city regular
A woman about town is one who frequents fashionable social venues—restaurants, theaters, parties, galleries.
The phrase suggests someone sophisticated, well-connected, and visible in urban nightlife or cultural circles: She's become quite the woman about town since her promotion.
The male equivalent is man about town.
- socialiteProminent figure in fashionable circles
- high societyThe social elite
- cosmopolitanCulturally sophisticated, internationally fluent
- sophisticatedWorldly and cultured
- networkerOne who cultivates contacts
power lunch · theater · gallery opening · fashionista · urbanite · well-dressed · elegant · art patron · glamorous · nightlife · hostess · seen and heard · poised · bon vivant · trendsetter · city dweller · café society · partygoer
woman about townhomebody
One preferring domestic life
recluse · shut-in · hermit · introvert · stay-at-home
woman about townprovincial
Regional or narrow-minded
country mouse · homebody · country girl · bumpkin · hick
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