Crossword clues for prodigy
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Prodigy \Prod"i*gy\, n.; pl. Prodigies. [ L. prodigium; pro before + (perh.) a word appearing in adagium adage: cf. F. prodige. Cf. Adage. ]
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Something extraordinary, or out of the usual course of nature, from which omens are drawn; a portent; as, eclipses and meteors were anciently deemed prodigies.
So many terrors, voices, prodigies, May warn thee, as a sure foregoing sign.
--Milton. Anything so extraordinary as to excite wonder or astonishment; a marvel; as, a prodigy of learning.
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A production out of ordinary course of nature; an abnormal development; a monster.
--B. Jonson.Syn: Wonder; miracle; portent; marvel; monster.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 15c., "sign, portent, something extraordinary from which omens are drawn," from Latin prodigium "prophetic sign, omen, portent, prodigy," from pro- "forth" (see pro-) + -igium, a suffix or word of unknown origin, perhaps from *agi-, root of aio "I say" (see adage). Meaning "child with exceptional abilities" first recorded 1650s.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context now rare English) An extraordinary thing seen as an omen; a portent. (from 15th c.) 2 An extraordinary occurrence or creature; an anomaly, especially a monster; a freak. (from 16th c.) 3 An amazing or marvellous thing; a wonder. (from 17th c.) 4 A wonderful example of something. (from 17th c.) 5 An extremely talented person, especially a child. (from 17th c.)
WordNet
n. an unusually gifted or intelligent (young) person; someone whose talents excite wonder and admiration; "she is a chess prodigy"
a sign of something about to happen; "he looked for an omen before going into battle" [syn: omen, portent, presage, prognostic, prognostication]
an impressive or wonderful example of a particular quality; "the Marines are expected to perform prodigies of valor"
Wikipedia
Prodigy Communications Corporation (Prodigy Services Corp., Prodigy Services Co., Trintex) was an online service that offered its subscribers access to a broad range of networked services, including news, weather, shopping, bulletin boards, games, polls, expert columns, banking, stocks, travel, and a variety of other features.
Initially, subscribers using personal computers accessed the Prodigy service by means of copper wire telephone " POTS" service or X.25 dialup. For its initial roll-out, Prodigy supported 1200 bit/s modems. To provide faster service and to stabilize the diverse modem market, Prodigy offered low-cost 2400 bit/s internal modems to subscribers at a discount. The host systems used were regionally distributed IBM Series/1 minicomputers managed by central IBM mainframes located in Yorktown Heights, New York.
The company claimed it was the first consumer online service, citing its graphical user interface and basic architecture as differentiation from CompuServe, which started in 1979 and used a command-line interface.
By 1990 it was the second-largest online service provider, with 465,000 subscribers trailing only CompuServe's 600,000. Its headquarters were in White Plains, New York until 2000, when they moved to Austin, Texas.
Prodigy, in comics, may refer to:
- Prodigy (David Alleyne), a character featured prominently in various X-Men titles
- Prodigy (Ritchie Gilmore), a character who first appeared in Slingers
- Spider-Man has gone by the name Prodigy, but has not gone by that name since Ritchie Gilmore took over the identity
Albert Johnson (born November 2, 1974), better known by his stage name Prodigy, is an American rapper and one half of the hip hop duo Mobb Deep with Havoc. He is the great-great-grandson of the founder of Morehouse College.
Prodigy or Prodigies may refer to:
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Child prodigy, an individual who is a master of one or more skills or arts at an early age
- Chess prodigy
Prodigy (Ritchie Gilmore) is a fictional character, a superhero in Marvel Comics.
Prodigy (David Alleyne) is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, commonly in association with the X-Men. Prodigy is a student at the Xavier Institute, member of the New X-Men squad, and a former mutant who lost his superhuman abilities. He was created by writers Nunzio DeFilippis and Christina Weir and artist Keron Grant, and he first appeared in New Mutants, vol. 2 #4 (October 2003).
He was originally a mutant with the ability to absorb the knowledge and skills of anyone within a limited distance. He could not control this ability and would forget his acquired knowledge once they became out of range. He attends the Xavier Institute and becomes co-leader of the New Mutants training squad. After the events of House of M and the ensuing " Decimation" of mutants, David loses his powers, but he remains at the Institute, becoming a member of the New X-Men team and utilizing his natural intellect to assist his teammates. He later regains all the knowledge and skills he had absorbed before becoming depowered, including many of the X-Men's considerable expertise in science and physical combat, making him a stronger addition to the X-Men. Despite being human, he remains with the X-Men as a substitute instructor and trainee for stories over a number of years.
Prodigy is a 2013 dystopian young adult novel by Marie Lu. It is the second book of a trilogy, preceded by Legend and followed by Champion.
Prodigy is an upcoming tactical role-playing video game under development by Hanakai Studio. The game features figurines representing characters in the game, and uses cards to control their behaviors, such as attacking. Both cards and figurines are placed on a game board, with their position on the board influencing their powers and abilities. After an initial release date set in 2015, the studio announced that Prodigy's release would be delayed to 2016 due to an upgrade of its gameplay system. A Kickstarter campaign to fund the game's Alpha and Beta phases began on April 2, 2014, with a $100,000 funding goal. It reached its goal in just three days and ended up collecting $212,194 from 1,208 backers.
Usage examples of "prodigy".
However, the General-inChief having opposed him to Mourad Bey, Murat performed such prodigies of valour in every perilous encounter that he effaced the transitory stain which a momentary hesitation under the walls of Mantua had left on his character.
On the surface of the cloth stream that poured past him, he pictured radiant futures wherein he performed prodigies of toil, invented miraculous machines, won to the mastership of the mills, and in the end took her in his arms and kissed her soberly on the brow.
She is a beauty, a perfect prodigy, she plays at sight on several instruments, dances like Terpsichore, speaks English, French, and Italian equally well--in a word, she is really wonderful.
By the age of five, the pint-sized prodigy was apprenticed to Signor Blitz, the greatest of all the magicians in the world, and by his twelfth year, the precocious prestidigitator was the favorite of the sultans and sheiks of far-away lands.
To have Sarissa, whom he had thought irreversibly inimical to him, holding him with such single-mindedness, was to him in the nature of a prodigy.
Already latent inside me, like the future 120 mph serve of a tennis prodigy, was the ability to communicate between the genders, to see not with the monovision of one sex but in the stereoscope of both.
The man must be a prodigy who can retain his manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances.
Yet I was disturbed when he spoke of a prodigy, for suddenly I remembered the birth of this Apis calf and my own fears.
But the Catholic church, both of the East and of the West, has adopted a prodigy which favors, or seems to favor, the popular worship of the cross.
Pitts had won the Guggenheim grant he applied for to support his doctoral project, but Wiener soon learned that Pitts was plagued by two flaws Wiener himself never suffered as a prodigy or as an adult: an incorrigible habit of procrastination and a terror of being judged, which Pitts masked with bravado.
The philosopher, who with calm suspicion examines the dreams and omens, the miracles and prodigies, of profane or even of ecclesiastical history, will probably conclude, that if the eyes of the spectators have sometimes been deceived by fraud, the understanding of the readers has much more frequently been insulted by fiction.
A doubtful campaign went on in which the English, attacked now by the Ostmen of the towns, now by the Irish, fought with very varying success, but with prodigies of valour.
Mickey Zucker Reichert, child prodigy, when I was still at NAL, running the Signet science fiction line.
I had become a bit long in the tooth for a trumpet prodigy and the ropedancers were smoking more and dancing less.
Le Beau describes an infant prodigy who was born with the mammae well formed and as much hair on the mons veneris as a girl of thirteen or fourteen.