To save this word, you'll need to log in. Is a prodigy a genius or a monster - or both? Nowadays, it's the talent that shines through, but back in the 15th century the word's meaning was more strongly influenced by that of its Latin ancestor, prodigium, meaning "omen" or "monster. Even in modern English, the word sometimes refers to an extraordinary deed or accomplishment. Wodehouse used that sense when he described how a character named Pongo Twistleton was "performing prodigies with the [billiard] cue. Dance Crew and singer-songwriter Nolan Neal. Send us feedback. Accessed 5 Aug. Keep scrolling for more More Definitions for prodigy prodigy. Please tell us where you read or heard it including the quote, if possible.
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Internet prodigy and Reddit founder Aaron Swartz committed suicide on Friday. The twit, Guy Clinch, is the unlucky father of Marmaduke, an month-old prodigy of domestic mayhem. Prodigy likewise is relatively common in mathematics and the sciences. The young man stood still where he was, bewildered by this prodigy of paternal love.
Audio: Listen to this story. To hear more feature stories, download the Audm app for your iPhone. So why not move eastward through Europe, until we get the book on parenting the Moldavian way? And you can wonder whether the German molding system leaves German kids molded quite so thoroughly as Zaske, an American long resident in Berlin, insists. In her depiction, the new German style of child rearing remains, well, extremely German: here are the most highly organized forms of not being highly organized that have ever existed. Nowhere else, it seems, will you find such tightly controlled varieties of freedom, such militarized ordering of open-ended play, such centralized rules for creative anarchy.
