prodigy

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A year after the prodigy has been at the academy, father and mother, uncle and aunt, plague you no more with his doings and sayings: the extraordinary infant has become a very ordinary little boy.

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  1. noun A person with exceptional talents or powers: a math prodigy.
  2. noun An act or event so extraordinary or rare as to inspire wonder. See Synonyms at wonder.
  3. noun A portentous sign or event; an omen.

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  • I suppose this applied to his musician-prodigy, a girl of eight, who worked, in the afternoons, in the bindery. —  Tramping on Life
  • Ramón was a child prodigy, a classically trained pianist who left Spain to study at the Conservatoire in Paris. —  The Guardian World News
  • She said Mozart had a sister who also was a child prodigy, and their dad traveled the country for both to perform. —  The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal:Today's Headlines
  • Librarian of Congress James H. Billington today named singer / songwriter Stevie Wonder†"who burst on the scene in the early 1960s as a musical prodigy, and whose dance hits and love songs segued over the years into thoughtful commentaries on the joy and injustice in our worldâ€" as the recipient of the Second Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song. —  unalog
  • The 20-year old prodigy is an M-1 veteran who trains alongside —  Five Ounces of Pain
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marvel ·  miracle ·  feat ·  portent ·  omen ·  apparition ·  precocity ·  happening ·  coincidence ·  erudition ·  exploit ·  catastrophe

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prodigy:   prodigies
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English prodige, portent, from Latin prōdigium.

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  1. Formerly also prodige; = French prodige = Spanish Portuguese Italian prodigio, from Latin prodigium, a prophetic sign, token, omen, portent, prob. for *prodicium, from prodicere. say beforehand, foretell, from pro, before, + dicere, say: see diction. Otherwise from prod-, older form of pro, before, + agium, a saying, as in adagium, a saying: see adage.
 

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