Definitions for debutante

debutante deb·u·tante

Spelling: [deb-yoo-tahnt, -tant]
IPA: /ˈdɛb yʊˌtɑnt, -ˌtænt/

Debutante is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 280 anagrams from letters in debutante (abdeenttu).

Definitions for debutante

noun

  1. a young woman making a debut into society.

Origin of debutante

1795-1805; French; feminine of débutant debutant

Examples for debutante

Before his marriage to the Queen, Philip dated society beauty Osla Benning, a Canadian debutante, whom he met in 1939.

It was a typical Southern upbringing complete with not one, but two debutante balls.

At first glance, Finke, a debutante from Manhattan, is a rarity in this wicked pantheon of secret-sharers.

I attended this first sitting with the thrill of a debutante going to a ball.

He could no more resist these things than a debutante in her first season.

But she acted so excellently, no one would have supposed her to be a debutante.

And not one debutante in ten out of a winter ever gets to go!

She's no debutante any more, you know; she's an 'old girl' in her fifth season.

She had been raised as a debutante, a beautiful, delicate orchid from Vancouver, Canada.

Not more than one debutante in ten is; Emily was one of the nine.

Word Value for debutante
Scrable

12

Words with friends

15

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