jet set

See also: jetset

English

Alternative forms

• jetset, jet-set

Pronunciation

• Audio (General Australian):

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Noun

jet set (plural jet sets)

1. (idiomatic) A social class of wealthy people who travel for pleasure.
   • 2007, Tasmina Perry, Daddy's Girls, page 473:

     He had pleaded with her to come back to the yacht to discuss things away from the DJ and the cocktails and eavesdropping jet set, but she had turned on her spike heels and disappeared.

   • 2025 June 27, Michael M. Grynbaum, “The Concorde-and-Caviar Era of Condé Nast, When Magazines Ruled the Earth”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN, archived from the original on 27 June 2025:

     Magazines kept aristocrats on the payroll to facilitate access to jet-set playgrounds like Corfu and Mustique.

Derived terms

• jet-setty

Related terms

• jet-setter
• jet-setting

Translations

wealthy people who travel for pleasure

• Catalan: jet-set f
• Dutch: jetset (nl) m
• Finnish: suihkuseurapiiri (fi)
• French: jet-set (fr) f
• German: Jetset (de) m
• Greek: τζετ σετ (el) n (tzet set)
• Hebrew: חוג הסילון
• Italian: jet-set m
• Polish: jet set (pl) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: џетсет m

  Latin: džetset m

• Spanish: jet set f
• Swedish: jet set

See also

• beautiful people
• high society
• VIP

Adjective

jet set (not comparable)

1. Relating to the lifestyle of the jet set.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:jet set.

Translations

relating to the jet set

• Finnish: jetset-, suihkuseurapiiri-
• Polish: jetsetowy

Verb

jet set (third-person singular simple present jet sets, present participle jet setting, simple past and past participle jet setted)

1. (intransitive) To follow the lifestyle of the jet set.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:jet set.