Highflier

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. One who is extravagant or extreme in manner or opinions.
  • n. A stock that sells well above its original value.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A person who or a type of aircraft that flies at high elevations.
  • n. An ambitious person, especially one who takes risks or has an extravagant lifestyle.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. One who is extravagant in pretensions, opinions, or manners; one who is highfaluting.
  • n. a person of great ability and ambition.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A bird that flies to a great height; hence, one who is extravagant or goes to extremes in his aims, actions, or pretensions: sometimes applied in England to a genteel beggar.
  • n. One of certain geometrid moths: an English collector’ name. The ruddy high-flier is Ypsipetes ruberata; the July high-flier is Y. elutata.
  • n. A phaëton with low front wheels, arched reaches, and boxes over both axles.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a person of great ability and ambition
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    achiever    winner    success    succeeder   
    Cross Reference
    purple high-flier   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    highflyer   
     
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