prodigy
noun/ˈprɒdədʒi/
/ˈprɑːdədʒi/
(plural prodigies)
- a young person whose intelligence or skill is unusually good for their age
- a child/an infant prodigy
- a musical prodigy
- Mozart was an infant prodigy, composing music at the age of four.
- The 12-year-old prodigy will play America’s reigning chess champion next week.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryProdigy is used after these nouns:- child
Word Originlate 15th cent. (denoting something extraordinary considered to be an omen): from Latin prodigium ‘portent’.Definitions on the go
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