Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun highflier

1 sense of highflier

Sense 1
highflier, highflyer -- (a person of great ability and ambition)
       => achiever, winner, success, succeeder -- (a person with a record of successes; "his son would never be the achiever that his father was"; "only winners need apply"; "if you want to be a success you have to dress like a success")