Usually means: Exhibition of superficiality and materialism.
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We found 18 dictionaries that define the word Vanity Fair:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. vanity fair: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. vanity fair: Merriam-Webster
  3. Vanity Fair: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. Vanity Fair: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. Vanity Fair: Collins English Dictionary
  6. vanity fair: Vocabulary.com
  7. vanity-fair: Wordnik
  8. Vanity Fair: Wiktionary
  9. Vanity Fair: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Vanity Fair: Dictionary.com
  11. Vanity Fair (British magazine), Vanity Fair (UK), Vanity Fair (UK magazine), Vanity Fair (disambiguation), Vanity Fair (magazine), Vanity Fair (magazines), Vanity Fair (novel), Vanity Fair (underwear), Vanity Fair, Vanity fair: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. vanity fair: Rhymezone
  13. Vanity Fair: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  14. vanity fair: FreeDictionary.org
  15. vanity fair: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. Vanity Fair: TheFreeDictionary.com

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. vanity fair: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. vanity fair: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See vanity_fairs as well.)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Vanity Fair)

▸ noun:  (derogatory) Society, especially high society, as a place of self-interest and the superficial.

Similar:
beau monde, philauty, styledom, beautiful people, vers de societe, bon ton, vogue, autophilia, glamour, fashion, more...

Opposite:
humility, modesty, unpretentiousness

Adjectives:
splashy, flaunty, meretricious, ornate, poncey, stagy, flamboyant, jazzy, fine, gewgaw, schmancy

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Similar:
beau monde, philauty, styledom, beautiful people, vers de societe, bon ton, vogue, autophilia, glamour, fashion, more...

Opposite:
humility, modesty, unpretentiousness

Adjectives:
splashy, flaunty, meretricious, ornate, poncey, stagy, flamboyant, jazzy, fine, gewgaw, schmancy



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