PRODIGY | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

Meaning of prodigy in English

(Definition of prodigy from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
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Examples of prodigy

prodigy
But she had been a literary prodigy in her youth so tinges of the glory remained.
Both accounts try to determine the importance of nature versus environment in producing musical prodigies.
The child prodigy who's no longer a child.
For the participant who had been 'somewhat of a child prodigy' there was the challenge of being 'back in the pot' with everyone else.
The studio audience murmurs that no one can outdo such a prodigy of memory.
Perhaps the otherwise puzzling phenomena of child prodigies (where, say, musical skills are manifest at very young ages) are cases of this sort.
The form of this prodigy has, therefore, looked much like an icicle.
He was no infant prodigy and had composed very little until his late teens.
Within these limits, the supernatural is destined to remain an intruder, a prodigy, and a monster.
I have been following all the newspaper correspondents and the prodigies they have performed with their pen are inconceivable.
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He must have been a child prodigy with a vengeance.
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There are very few infant theological prodigies, thank goodness!
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Arts are not solely for the infant prodigies on the violin.
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Prodigy is a three-year research and development project the results of which will not be known until late 1997.
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By the way, it is vital that those who are infant prodigies on the violin should have an educated audience to play to or indeed an audience at all.
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Translations of prodigy

in Chinese (Traditional)
奇才,天才…
in Chinese (Simplified)
奇才,天才…
in Spanish
prodigio…
in Portuguese
prodígio…
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dâhi, harika çocuk…
prodige…
wonder…
zázrak…
vidunder…
keanehan, keajaiban…
สิ่งมหัศจรรย์…
người/ vật phi thường…
geniusz, cud…
under, under[barn]…
berbakat luar biasa…
das Wunder…
vidunder(barn), unikum, særsyn…
диво, чудо…
вундеркинд…
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