A wonderful object, a marvel; a person or thing of more than natural excellence; a surpassing specimen or example of some quality.

A remarkable person or thing; a singular example of a particular quality or type. Now colloquial and English regional.

A wonderful being.

A person with exceptional qualities or abilities esp. a precociously talented child. Frequently with appositive modifying word, as child prodigy, infa…

A very notable or extraordinary thing; a highly exceptional or unaccountable fact or occurrence; (colloquial) a thing, person, or animal remarkable…

slang. (Of U.S. origin.) Anything that staggers, or excites alarm or astonishment; an extraordinary thing or person.

He who or that which astonishes: see quot.

A strange or amazing thing; an eccentric or remarkable person.

= phenomenon, n. 4; esp. an unusually gifted person (frequently a young sportsperson), a prodigy.

colloquial. A person or thing of overwhelming or surpassing quality. Cf. A. g.

In Nietzschean thought (also with capital initial): an ideal superior man of the future who transcends conventional Christian morality to create and…

A talented or successful young man, a ‘whizz-kid’. Also transferred.

an exceptionally successful or brilliant young person, esp. in politics or business.