jet set life
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7.4
- noun
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vida de jet set
- Many celebrities enjoy a jet set life, frequently flying first class to luxurious destinations.
Examples
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Living a jet set life means traveling to exotic locations and attending glamorous parties.
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Living the jet set life sounds exciting!
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He spent his twenties chasing the jet set life from party to party around the globe.
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Magazines are full of stories about celebrities and their jet set life.
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Many dream of living a jet set life, but few can afford its luxuries.
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Many celebrities enjoy a jet set life filled with luxury.
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She dreamed of a jet set life, filled with luxury vacations and high-end parties around the world.
Synonyms
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5.6
A life of luxury with expensive things and many pleasures
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7.7
A way of living with expensive things, parties, and lots of spending
A lifestyle of frequent travel to fashionable foreign places, often with luxury
Antonyms
How Glamorous
Surface Forms
Morphology
The components 'jet' (air travel) + 'set' (a social group) + 'life' (way of living) allow a learner to guess this refers to a lifestyle involving frequent jet travel, but the connotation of glamorous, wealthy, high‑status leisure is culturally specific and not strictly derivable from the parts. Because the phrase relies on sociocultural inference and is often treated as a conventionalized label (and even borrowed into other languages), its full meaning usually requires prior exposure.
Etymology
Jet set life may come from the 1950s, when rich people began using fast jets to fly from one fancy party to another and the word set meant a small social group. That's why jet set life now means 'a glamorous life' of travel and parties.