golden girl

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A girl or young woman who has become unusually successful at an early age.
  2. A favored girl, held in high esteem by others, and for whom there are high hopes.
  3. A young woman who is beautiful in a wholesome and healthy way.
    — In her day, Betty Grable was the golden girl of America.
  4. An older woman, a female senior citizen. informal
    — Ha ha, we were teasing our mom that she's a golden girl now.

词形变化

golden girls plural

词源

The senior citizen sense was inspired by a TV show in the 1980s, The Golden Girls, about a group of friends. The show's title was inspired by the traditional senses of the term but seems also to have been a play on golden years and silver-haired.
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