Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

golden boy

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.55 in modern English

Syllables: gold-en boy
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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

noun

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

Example Sentences

"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."

Inflected Forms

golden boys (plural)

Phrases

golden girl

Frequently Paired Words

golden girl

Synonyms

child prodigy

Questions

What does golden boy mean?: A young man who has become unusually successful at an early age.

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