golden boy

English

Noun

golden boy (plural golden boys)

1. A young man who has become unusually successful at an early age.

   Bill Gates was the golden boy of the software industry in the early 1980s.

2. A favored youth, held in high esteem by others, and for whom there are high hopes.

   He was the golden boy of Montana politics.

Synonyms

• Thesaurus:child prodigy

Hypernyms

• golden child

Related terms

• golden girl