early bloomer
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- noun
- /ˈɜrli ˈblumər/
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desarrollador precoz
- Being an early bloomer, Julia excelled in math competitions from a young age.
Examples
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An early bloomer, Sarah learned to play the piano by the age of five.
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As an early bloomer, he started his business while still in high school.
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I was what they call an early bloomer.
Fiction book (1990) -
Patrick was an early bloomer, okay?
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Next spring I'm gonna get some early bloomers.
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THE PROFESSOR: I'd been an early bloomer myself.
Fiction book (1997) -
As an early bloomer, you were doing drugs and falling in love with strung-out street musicians by 15.
Blog text (34) -
Among boys and girls, early bloomers are at greater risk for such behavioral problems as eating disorders, depression, and other health concerns that may not fully surface until adulthood.
Academic text (2012) -
I wasn't exactly an early bloomer either, but by the time I turned 30, I had been with 30 women, and at some point in my lived experience, I actually stopped dwelling on the missed opportunities.
Blog text (19)
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Morphology
The sense 'person who develops abilities earlier than peers' is a metaphorical extension of 'bloomer' (one who flowers) combined with 'early.' While the mapping from flowering to human maturation is fairly transparent and cross-linguistically common, it requires a figurative transfer rather than strict compositionality, so a B1 learner would likely infer the meaning but not with full literal predictability.
Etymology
Early bloomer comes from the image of a flower that opens before the others: a bloomer 'blooms' (shows its flower) and an early one does this sooner. So, it means 'someone who develops skills or talents earlier than other people'.