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Prodigy   /prˈɑdədʒi/   Listen
Prodigy

noun
(pl. prodigies)
1.
An unusually gifted or intelligent (young) person; someone whose talents excite wonder and admiration.
2.
A sign of something about to happen.  Synonyms: omen, portent, presage, prognostic, prognostication.
3.
An impressive or wonderful example of a particular quality.



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"Prodigy" Quotes from Famous Books



... celebration was a scene of a demonstration of popular interest and patriotic feeling amazing in its multitudinous enthusiasm. The Loyal League was out in full force, the parade was a prodigy of display, and the Clover Club gave a brilliant dinner, and the cleverness of the President's speech carried the club ...
— The Story of the Philippines and Our New Possessions, • Murat Halstead
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... document. I found that it was dated in Milwaukee, and signed by the mayor of that city, two physicians, three clergymen, and an editor, who bore united testimony to the fact that Jacob Menzel—I think that was his name—the bearer, any way,—was a deaf mute, and, considering that fact, a prodigy of learning, being master of no less than five different languages (a pathetic circumstance, considering that he was unable to speak one); moreover, that he was a converted Jew; and, furthermore, a native of Germany, who had come to this ...
— Humorous Masterpieces from American Literature • Various
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... left her infant prodigy, Clarence, in our care for a little while that she might not be distracted by his innocent prattle while selecting the material ...
— Successful Recitations • Various
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... look at some of their cameras and the clerk sold me one of the kind that 'a child can operate.' He didn't say where the child was to be found, but I have since concluded that it must be a very remarkable specimen of the infant prodigy, and is probably touring the country as a dime museum attraction on the ...
— Said the Observer • Louis J. Stellman
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... battle of Salamis. He does this by refusing to see in the above quotations from Herodotus any allusion to a solar eclipse at all, but invites us to consider a later statement in Herodotus[46] as relating to an eclipse though the historian only calls it a prodigy. ...
— The Story of Eclipses • George Chambers
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