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A person of great ability and ambition
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highflier
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Highflier \High"fli`er\, n. One who is extravagant in pretensions, opinions, or manners; one who is highfaluting. --Swift. a person of great ability and ambition. [WordNet sense 1] Syn: highflyer.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
alt. 1 A person who or a type of aircraft that flies at high elevations. 2 (context idiomatic English) An ambitious person, especially one who takes risks or has an extravagant lifestyle. n. 1 A person who or a type of aircraft that flies at high elevations. ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a person of great ability and ambition [syn: highflyer ]
Usage examples of highflier.
Look at the first twenty people that come towering by on the roof of a Highflier or a Defiance.
Dominion had been a highflier for Everest, so Everest decided to do an IPO.
If rumor could be believed, there were Cyprians in London who commanded fortunes in their chosen professions, highfliers who had half the gentlemen of the ton at their feet.
Those speculative highfliers should be somewhere in the millileafs per share by now, with calls everywhere going unhonored.
Hail to your purlieus, All ye highfliers of the feathered race, Swallows and curlews!