golden girl
A girl or young woman who has become unusually successful at an early ageA girl or young woman who has become unusually successful at an early age.
Meaning
4 sensesA 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.
(informal)An older woman, a female senior citizen.
Ha ha, we were teasing our mom that she's a golden girl now.
Origin
The senior citizen sense was inspired by a TV show in the 1980s, The Golden Girls, about aThe 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.
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Forms
plural: golden girls| Singular | golden girl |
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