"highflyer" meaning in All languages combined

See highflyer on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: highflyers [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} highflyer (plural highflyers)
  1. Alternative form of highflier Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: highflier
    Sense id: en-highflyer-en-noun-Hfk1R7Bq Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "text": "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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        {
          "ref": "2011 January 8, Chris Bevan, “Arsenal 1 - 1 Leeds”, in BBC:",
          "text": "The Championship highflyers almost got their reward for a resilient performance on their first visit to the Emirates, surviving a flurry of first-half Arsenal chances before hitting back with a classic sucker punch.",
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