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noun

Prodigy n. (pl. prodigies)

Something extraordinary, or out of the usual course of nature, from which omens are drawn; a portent; as, eclipses and meteors were anciently deemed prodigies. "So many terrors, voices, prodigies, May warn thee, as a sure foregoing sign."

Anything so extraordinary as to excite wonder or astonishment; a marvel; as, a prodigy of learning.

A production out of ordinary course of nature; an abnormal development; a monster.

Synonyms: Wonder; miracle; portent; marvel; monster.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Prodigy" Quotes from Famous Books

... intolerably strange thing, Oliver, that a man cannot perform the mere necessary duties of humanity, without being supposed almost a prodigy. Where is the common sense, I will not say delicacy, which should teach people that such suppositions are an insult, not only to the person but to all mankind? I am young, I grant, and know but little of the barbarity which it ...

— Anna St. Ives • Thomas Holcroft

... foreigners, and to children. He was of a robust make, with a florid sailor-like complexion, and his head was bare to the storm and sunshine. He was a natural curiosity, a speculation to the scientific, a prodigy to the simple. The infant would stare at the mighty man brought down to his own level. The common cripple would despise his own pusillanimity, viewing the hale stoutness, and hearty heart, of this half-limbed giant. Few but must ...

— The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb, Volume 2 • Charles Lamb

... whole Roman state enjoyed great renown, and was highly flourishing, it was announced to the king and senators, that it had rained stones on the Alban Mount. As this could scarcely be credited, on persons being sent to investigate the prodigy, a shower of stones fell from heaven before their eyes, just as when balls of hail are pelted down to the earth by the winds. They also seemed to hear a loud voice from the grove on the summit of the hill, bidding the Albans perform their religious ...

— Roman History, Books I-III • Titus Livius

... the Boy Conductor? A musical prodigy, seven years old, who will order the fifth oboe out of the Albert Hall as soon as look at him. Well, he has ...

— The Sunny Side • A. A. Milne

... and Jonah's face changed instantly. It wore the adoring gaze of the fond parent, who thinks his child is a marvel and a prodigy. ...

— Jonah • Louis Stone

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