Associations to the word «Highflier»

Wiktionary

HIGHFLIER, noun. A person who or a type of aircraft that flies at high elevations.
HIGHFLIER, noun. (idiomatic) An ambitious person, especially one who takes risks or has an extravagant lifestyle.

Dictionary definition

HIGHFLIER, noun. A person of great ability and ambition.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope