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HIGHFLYER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does highflyer mean?
• HIGHFLYER (noun)
The noun HIGHFLYER has 1 sense:
1. a person of great ability and ambition
Familiarity information: HIGHFLYER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A person of great ability and ambition
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
highflier; highflyer
Hypernyms ("highflyer" is a kind of...):
achiever; succeeder; success; winner (a person with a record of successes)
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