golden girl
golden girl noun: a girl or young woman who has become unusually successful at an early age.
Noun
golden girl (plural golden girls)
- A girl or young woman who has become unusually successful at an early age.
- A favored girl, held in high esteem by others, and for whom there are high hopes.
- A young woman who is beautiful in a wholesome and healthy way.
- In her day, Betty Grable was the golden girl of America.
- An older woman, a female senior citizen.
- Ha ha, we were teasing our mom that she's a golden girl now.
Forms of golden girl
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Origin of golden girl
The senior citizen sense was inspired by a TV show in the 1980s, The Golden Girls, about a group of friends. The show's title was inspired by the traditional senses of the term but seems also to have been a play on golden years and silver-haired.
Questions about golden girl
- What does golden girl mean?
- Golden girl means a girl or young woman who has become unusually successful at an early age.
- What part of speech is golden girl?
- Golden girl is a noun.
- What is the plural of golden girl?
- The plural of golden girl is golden girls.
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