Highflyer

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative form of highflier. alt-of, alternative

    "One Emigration follows another; grounded on reasonable fear, unreasonable hope, largely also on childish pet. The highflyers have gone first, now the lower flyers; and ever the lower will go down to the crawlers."

  2. 2
    a person of great ability and ambition wordnet

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"One Emigration follows another; grounded on reasonable fear, unreasonable hope, largely also on childish pet. The highflyers have gone first, now the lower flyers; and ever the lower will go down to the crawlers."

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