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wunderkind

[ voon-der-kind, wuhn-; German voon-duhr-kint ]

noun

, plural wun·der·kinds, German wun·der·kin·der [voon, -d, uh, r, -kin-d, uh, r].
  1. a wonder child or child prodigy.
  2. a person who succeeds, especially in business, at a comparatively early age.


wunderkind

/ ˈwʌndəˌkɪnd; ˈvʊndərˌkɪnt /

noun

  1. a child prodigy
  2. a person who is exceptionally successful in his field while still young
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of wunderkind1

1890–95; < German, equivalent to Wunder wonder + Kind child
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Word History and Origins

Origin of wunderkind1

C20: German, literally: wonder child
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Example Sentences

Early on, Straubel, the battery wunderkind, helped come up with a system that could manage the heat generated by a pack of lithium-ion batteries and thus avoid the dangers of explosions and fires.

The NHL loves a wunderkind, and they don’t get any better than the Great One or his modern-day equivalent.

It’s just that sometimes certain wunderkinds come along and make everyone forget the adage.

The classic version of the gene editing wunderkind literally slices a gene to bits just to turn it off.

For 2019–20, Völkl has released another engineering wunderkind of a ski in the new, fatter Mantra 102.

Mary Matalin once dubbed him a “mega-multimedia Wunderkind!”

Feinstein, no slouch himself in the wunderkind department, began his career at the age of 20, working for Ira Gershwin.

The novel is narrated by 20-something literary wunderkind Marcus Goldman.

For many Latin America watchers, the fall of this entrepreneurial wunderkind was a body blow to Brazil itself.

In 1951, wunderkind conductor Leonard Bernstein married the beautiful actress Felicia Montealegre.

Isn't he what your countrymen would call a 'Wunderkind,' Mademoiselle?

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