vanity fair

1. 1.

   a vain and frivolous lifestyle especially in large cities

   Broaderlife style

Questions about vanity fair

What does vanity fair mean?

vanity fair means "a vain and frivolous lifestyle especially in large cities".

Is vanity fair a common word?

vanity fair is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.