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  1. noun An imaginary or legendary creature, such as a centaur or Harpy, that combines parts from various animal or human forms.
  2. noun A creature having a strange or frightening appearance.
  3. noun An animal, a plant, or other organism having structural defects or deformities.
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  • A new horror movie villain in which the monster is a mild-mannered slip of a girl that eats brains for breakfast!
  • Skinner Cade's adventures as he changes from being a rather innocent farm boy attending college into what he perceives as a monster is a fascinating, if gruesome story of murder, sadism and betrayals that won't be for everyone. —  F ;SF - vol 088 issue 03 - March 1995
  • And that meant their monster was a smart monster, able to think and plan and not gulp its pleasures. —  The Warslayer
  • This ends up working in the movie's favour, however; Boris Karloff as the monster is the key to the proceedings, and Frankenstein himself is just plot business to get us to the good stuff. —  Challenging Destiny #18
  • One pharaoh had stepped over the threshold of eternity; another rose up like the sun, but the stone face of the god or the monster was the same precisely. —  The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English monstre, from Old French, from Latin mōnstrum, portent, monster, from monēre, to warn; see men-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English monstre, mounstre, from Old French monstre, French monstre = Spanish monstruo = Portuguese monstro = Italian monstro, mostro, from Latin monstrum, a divine omen, especially one indicating misfortune, an evil omen, a portent, prodigy, wonder, monster, from monere, warn: see monish. Cf. monster, v., muster, monstration, etc.
  2. from Middle English monstren, from Old French monstrer, from Latin monstrare, show: see monster, n., and monish. Cf. muster, v.
 

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