proper noun

• The world regarded as a place of frivolity and idle amusement (originally with reference to Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress).

  ‘In the final analysis, Thackeray too had a booth in Vanity Fair; he was not uncompromising.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘The International Economic Forum held here on June 7th and 8th was more than just a vanity fair of show-offs and lavish parties.’
  • ‘Your whole life is nothing but a vanity fair.’