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Meaning of golden boy | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. A young man who has become unusually successful at an early age.
  2. A favored youth, held in high esteem by others, and for whom there are high hopes.

Equivalents

Suomi kultapoika
Français golden boy
Italiano golden boy

Examples

“Bill Gates was the golden boy of the software industry in the early 1980s.”
“On Friday, November 17, 2023, around noon Pacific time, Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, Silicon Valley’s golden boy, avatar of the generative AI revolution, logged on to a Google Meet⟳ to see⟳ four of his five board⟳ members staring at him.”
“He was the golden boy of Montana politics.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

golden brown golden bull golden calf golden chain golden chain tree Golden Chersonese

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