Meaning of Prodigy | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An extraordinary occurrence or creature; an anomaly, especially a monster; a freak.
2. An amazing or marvellous thing; a wonder.
3. A wonderful example of something.
4. An extremely talented person, especially a child.
5. An extraordinary thing seen as an omen; a portent.
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Equivalents

Examples

“He is never chased; he would run away with rope-walks of line. Prodigies are told of him.”

“These on the farther bank now stood and gazed, / By Heaven alarm’d, by prodigies amazed: / A signal omen stopp’d the passing host, / Their martial fury in their wonder lost.”

“Prodigies and Portents have infected the beſt VVritings of Antiquity; and have ſo blotted and deformed our modern Annals, that (vvith greater Juſtice than Polybius has obſerv'd it, of the former) they may be rather called Tragedies than History.”

“John Foxe believed that special prodigies had heralded the Reformation.”

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