golden boy

1. 1.

   a man who is unusually successful at an early age

   Synonymswonder boy

   Broaderman

Questions about golden boy

What does golden boy mean?

golden boy means "a man who is unusually successful at an early age".

What is another word for golden boy?

Close synonyms include wonder boy. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is golden boy a common word?

golden boy 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.