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media darling

media darling noun: a celebrity who is especially popular and who receives frequent and very favorable attention in the news media.

Noun

media darling (plural media darlings)

  1. (idiomatic) A celebrity who is especially popular and who receives frequent and very favorable attention in the news media.
    • TV Correspondent Alexander Krutkov became an overnight media darling with his piercing on-the-spot dispatches.1986 June 30, John Moody, “Gorbachev Loosens the Media's Reins”, in Time
    • “[T]he coverage of Obama has been so positive that you have to call him, though I really hate this term, a media darling.”2008 February 14, John Heilemann, “The Meme Prisoner”, in New York Magazine, retrieved 13 Sep 2010

Forms of media darling

pluralmedia darlings

Questions about media darling

What does media darling mean?
Media darling means a celebrity who is especially popular and who receives frequent and very favorable attention in the news media.
What part of speech is media darling?
Media darling is a noun.
What is the plural of media darling?
The plural of media darling is media darlings.

Words near media darling in the dictionary

  1. media bridges
  2. media center
  3. media centers
  4. media circus
  5. media circuses
  6. media darling
  7. media darlings
  8. media democracies
  9. media democracy
  10. media event
  11. media events

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