Word of the Day for Wednesday, March 2, 2011
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wunderkind \VOON-duhr-kint\, noun;
wunderkind \VOON-duhr-kint\, noun;
plural wunderkinder \-kin-duhr\:
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1. A child prodigy.
1. A child prodigy.
2. One who achieves great success or acclaim at an early age.
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Any honest evaluation of the B.O. at an early age will show that he was a train wreck of a young person; but his far left loons look on his life as if he were a wunderkind!
--Spy Maker, JSA's Blog
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It was even written that, at 20, his best days were behind him. He had gone from a wunderkind to an object of sympathy, a hero struggling not to be forgotten.-- "Owen shines like a beacon amid the wrecks", Times (London), May 29, 2000
It was even written that, at 20, his best days were behind him. He had gone from a wunderkind to an object of sympathy, a hero struggling not to be forgotten.-- "Owen shines like a beacon amid the wrecks", Times (London), May 29, 2000
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In the mid-thirties, he became the youngest and best state director of FDR's National Youth Administration, a Texas wunderkind who at age twenty-eight beat several better known opponents for a south-central Texas congressional seat.-- Robert Dallek, Flawed Giant
In the mid-thirties, he became the youngest and best state director of FDR's National Youth Administration, a Texas wunderkind who at age twenty-eight beat several better known opponents for a south-central Texas congressional seat.-- Robert Dallek, Flawed Giant
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Wunderkind comes from German, from Wunder, "wonder" + Kind, child.
Wunderkind comes from German, from Wunder, "wonder" + Kind, child.
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