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Word entry · 7 letters

prodigy

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"Young genius"

7 letters · collected on this word page

7 lettersPronunciation /ˈpɹɒdɪd͡ʒi/Part of speech nounSorted dgiopryStarts with PEnds with Y1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. an impressive or wonderful example of a particular quality

Word origin

From Middle English prodige (“portent”), from Latin prōdigium (“omen, portent, prophetic sign”).

Used in a sentence

  • 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.
  • John Foxe believed that special prodigies had heralded the Reformation.

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