wonder boy

1. 1.

   a man who is unusually successful at an early age

   Synonymsgolden boy

   Broaderman

Questions about wonder boy

What does wonder boy mean?

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

What is another word for wonder boy?

Close synonyms include golden 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 wonder boy a common word?

wonder 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.