(of a child) having developed particular abilities and ways of behaving at a much younger age than usual a precocious child who started her acting career at the age of 5 From an early age, she displayed a precocious talent for music.
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adverb a precociously talented child
his unusual precociousnessSee precocious in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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