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wunderkind

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

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noun

, plural wun·der·kinds, German wun·der·kin·der [voon, -d, uh, r, -kin-d, uh, r].

wunderkind

/ ˈwʌndəˌkɪnd; ˈvʊndərˌkɪnt /

1890–95; < German, equivalent to Wunder wonder + Kind child

C20: German, literally: wonder child

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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