a directory or list of people prominent in the fashionable society of a given area
Origin of social register
from the title of such a directory, later trademarkedsocial register
social registerWebster's New World College Dictionary, Fifth Edition Copyright © 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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social register
noun
A directory listing persons of social prominence in a community.
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