Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
n. A talented person who achieves great success at an early age; a wunderkind.
WordNet
n. a prodigy whose talents are recognized at an early age; "Mozart was a child prodigy" [syn: infant prodigy, wonder child]
Wikipedia
In psychology research literature, the term child prodigy is defined as a person under the age of ten who produces meaningful output in some domain to the level of an adult expert performer. Child prodigies are rare; and, in some domains, there are no child prodigies at all. Prodigiousness in childhood does not always predict adult eminence.
The term wunderkind (from , literally "wonder child") is sometimes used as a synonym for "prodigy", particularly in media accounts. Wunderkind also is used to recognize those who achieve success and acclaim early in their adult careers.
Usage examples of "child prodigy".
Agnes's suspicion that Barty would be a child prodigy had grown from seed to full fruit on the morning of the boy's first birthday, when he'd sat in his highchair, counting green-grape-and-apple pies.
Jon Remillard was a child prodigy, a prochronistic mutant whose intellect was arguably the most powerful of any entity in the Ga.
He'd never bought into all that child prodigy crap his parents had been so obsessed with.
Fat Dhuta and Doctor Lu had reported to Leader Hong that they had found a child prodigy who had been able to interpret the Tadpole inscription, and the Great Leader had demanded to set eyes on the prodigy for himself.
He had been a child prodigy possessed of profound mathematical gifts.
Send their delicate child prodigy to live with strangers, ignorant mountain peas-ants?
She knew he'd been a child prodigy, knew he'd dropped out of Juilliard on his 18th birthday to make his living on the street and at Renfaires, a rootless rebel, as shy as a wild hawk.
He was a year or two younger than most of us, a child prodigy who finished high school at fifteen.