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subdeb

subdeb is the clipping of subdebutante.

Meaning of subdebutante

Noun

subdebutante (plural subdebutantes)

  1. A young woman who has not yet made her formal appearance in society.
    • This is the season of the subdebutante. These are the days when in shrill perfumed coveys they flutter through the houses and clubhouses of America's big cities. When summer comes they will disperse to the leisure of lakes, beaches and mountains. But now the subdebutante is dynamic, gregarious and...1941 January 27, “Subdebs”, in LIFE, page 75
    Synonyms:
    predebutante, subdeb
    Antonyms:
    postdebutante

Forms of subdeb

pluralsubdebs
alternative formsub-deb

Origin of subdeb

Shortening.

Questions about subdeb

What is subdeb the clipping of?
Subdeb is the clipping of subdebutante.

Words near subdeb in the dictionary

  1. subdealers
  2. subdean
  3. subdeaneries
  4. subdeanery
  5. subdeans
  6. subdeb
  7. subdebs
  8. subdebutante
  9. subdebutantes
  10. subdecadal
  11. subdecanal

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Adapted from Wiktionary: subdeb (page history and authors); subdebutante (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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