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Definition: Prodigy |
ProdigyNoun1. An unusually talented or intelligent child. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "prodigy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1509. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Prodigy |
Literature | Prodigy The prodigy of France. Guillaume Budé; so called by Erasmus. (1467-1540.) The prodigy of learning. Samuel Hahnemann, the German, was so called by J. Paul Richter. (1755-1843.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Chess prodigies are children who play so good chess, that they are able to beat Masters and Grandmasters, often at a very young age. Some of them have become World Champions, others failed to make progress.The chess world always looks with big expectations to these prodigies. Chess is one of the few sports where children can compete with adults.
The has been a tendency for chess players to gain the Grandmaster title earlier and earlier in their lives. One possible reason for this is that the number of grandmasters on the whole has increased.
List of chess prodigies
See also: list of chess players, list of chess world championship matches.
- Michael Adams became an International Master at 15 and a grandmaster at 17
- Etienne Bacrot
- José Raúl Capablanca, later World Champion, learned the rules when he was 4 and was a strong player as a child
- Bobby Fischer, the later World Champion, became US Champion at the age of 15; at 13, he won the "The Game of The Century"
- Koneru Humpy is said to be the youngest Woman Grandmaster ever, but this is debated.
- Gata Kamsky had an Elo rating of 2650 at the age of 16
- Sergey Karjakin, at the age of 12 years and 7 months he became the youngest grandmaster ever. He was the official second (helper) of fellow Ukrainian Ruslan Ponomariov, during the 2002 FIDE Worldchampionship.
- Luke McShane won the World Under-10 Championship at the age of eight
- Joel Lautier
- Peter Leko told he would become Worldchampion before the year 2000, unfortunately it didn't work out that way.
- Paul Morphy, who at the age of twelve won a match 2.5 - 0.5 against Johann Löwenthal
- Judit Polgar
- Ruslan Ponomariov, the current FIDE World Champion
- Teimour Radjabov, became the youngest Grandmaster at the age of 14 years, until Karjakin broke his record. In the 2003 Linares tournament, he beat Gary Kasparov with the black pieces, although due to a big blunder of Kasparov.
- Samuel Reshevsky, a Polish boy, learned the rules at the age of 4, and gave simultaneous exhibitions at the age of six. His parents moved to the United States of America where they made a living of the talent of their child.
- Nigel Short finished joint-first in the British Championship at the age of 14
- Josh Waitzkin
External link
See Prodigy for alternate definitions
- http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=310 Chessbase news about young Grandmasters.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Chess prodigy."
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A child prodigy is what is normally seen as a precocious child who has a talent in a particular area. Examples of which include Mozart and Bobby Fischer. The idea of finding child prodigies is to make them able to exploit their talent in later life. However there is a school of thought which says that most children have talent and by calling one child in a hundred a prodigy you are exploiting the rest.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Child prodigy."
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A prodigy is someone who shows exceptional talent.
The term has been taken up for a number of other uses:
- A child prodigy can be a chess prodigy, a music prodigy, or a maths prodigy.
- Prodigy is an Internet Service Provider (ISP). See Prodigy (ISP)
- The Prodigy is a British techno and electronica band, known for hits like "Firestarter" and "Smack My Bitch Up". See The Prodigy.
- Prodigy is an American rapper from the 1990s. See Prodigy (rapper).
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Prodigy."
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Prodigy Communications Corporation operated a dialup service (a sort of "mega-BBS") for home computers in the United States before the advent of the Internet. Although Prodigy claimed it was the first consumer online service, CompuServe actually predated it by several years, but Prodigy was one of the first to offer a user-friendly GUI. Competing services, such as CompuServe and GEnie, were text-based. Prodigy used this graphical capability to provide heavy advertising, which it hoped would bring additional revenue.Prodigy was founded in 1984 as a joint venture between computer manufacturer IBM, US retailer Sears, and television network CBS. CBS left the venture in 1986, and the service finally launched in 1987. It was bundled with IBM's consumer-oriented PS/1 line of computers, and thanks to aggressive marketing in various magazines, soon had more than a million members.
Prodigy was accused in late 1990 and early 1991 of spying on its users; this was one of the first online privacy scares. The evidence offered was bits and pieces of user data showing up in two files: STAGE.DAT and CACHE.DAT. Prodigy contended that the data was never transmitted, but rather their software was taking unused disk space and not zeroing it before using it, thereby mixing Prodigy's data with deleted user files. However, some users claimed user data appeared even on freshly formatted disks that had Prodigy installed on them. Plus, it was unclear whether these data files were ever transmitted to Prodigy or used exclusively for local storage.
Prodigy also was accused of heavy-handed censorship of its users, for a time banning the mention of other users in public forums. The most infamous example of this was a coin collector's message being banned because it contained the phrase Roosevelt dime — there was also a user of the service named Roosevelt Dime.
Many sophisticated users avoided the service for these reasons.
The growth of the Internet into homes in the mid 1990s hurt Prodigy, who in 1994 became the first of the early-generation dialup services to offer access to the World Wide Web and to offer Web page hosting to its members. Soon, the company retooled itself as an ISP, making its main offering Internet access branded as Prodigy Internet. The original dialup service was rebranded as Prodigy Classic. Prodigy Classic folded in January 1999 due to Y2K concerns. In the end, the service only had 209,000 members.
IBM and Sears sold their interests in Prodigy in 1996 for $200 million. It was estimated that the two companies had invested more than $1 billion into the service since its founding. Prodigy went public in 1999. It was bought out in November 2001 by SBC Communications.
In the mid-1990s, when AOL was derided for its busy signals and other problems, Prodigy ranked high in consumer satisfaction and reliability surveys. However, at the time of its buyout, it was dwarfed in size by AOL and MSN. The brand name survives as a subsidiary of SBC.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Prodigy (ISP)."
Synonyms: ProdigySynonyms: infant prodigy (n), wonder child (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Inexpedience | Super-excellence, supereminence; superiority; perfection; coup de maitre; masterpiece, chef d'ouvre, prime, flower, cream, elite, pick, A, nonesuch, nonpareil, creme de la creme, flower of the flock, salt of the earth; champion; prodigy. |
Prodigy | Noun: prodigy, phenomenon; wonder, wonderment; marvel, miracle; monster; (unconformity); curiosity, lion, sight, spectacle; jeu de theatre, coup de theatre; gazingstock; sign; St. Elmo's fire, St. Elmo's light; portent. |
Proficient | Pantologist, admirable Crichton, Jack of all trades; prodigy of learning. |
Unconformity | Nonconformist; nondescript, character, original, nonesuch, nonsuch, monster, prodigy, wonder, miracle, curiosity, flying fish, black sheep, black swan, lusus naturae, rara avis, queer fish; mongrel, random breed; half-caste, half-blood, half-breed; metis, crossbreed, hybrid, mule, hinny, mulatto; tertium quid, hermaphrodite. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Prodigy |
| English words defined with "prodigy": Menuhin, Mozart ♦ play, Prodigies ♦ Sir Yehudi Menuhin ♦ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Wonderwork ♦ Yehudi Menuhin. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "prodigy": America On-Line, Inc. ♦ CompuServe Information Service, cyberbunny ♦ Infant of Lubeck. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "prodigy": Prodigious. (references) |
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Screenplays | He was a child prodigy; he was playing with both hands (Ultimo tango a Parigi; writing credit: Bernardo Bertolucci;) | |
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 | Spill response and clean-up at the oil spill site. Clean up workers use absorbent material to clean-up and wipe down the shoreline. The workers are cleaning up after the World Prodigy tanker spilled 290,000 gallons of #2 home heating oil into Narragansett Bay. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | A clean-up worker in the process of skimming oil as part of the clean-up process after the World Prodigy oil-spill. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
 | Basic facts and figures about the World Prodigy oil spill incident. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | A slide of a map showing sites of the quahog spawner sanctuaries. The quahog spawner sanctuaries were established to compensate for injuries to shellfish after oil spilled in Narragansett Bay when the World Prodigy ship grounded in 1989. Quahogs were taken from polluted areas of Narragansett Bay and allowed to depurate and then moved into clean areas where they were protected from harvest. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Desiderius Erasmus | Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | He is generally thought a fine young man, but do not expect a prodigy. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | That ran through the battle like a prodigy. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | For they looked upon it as a prodigy that a brute animal should discover such marks of a rational creature |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | The man must be a prodigy who can retain his manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances. |
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| "Prodigy" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Prodigy" is used about 108 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 108 | 31,306 |
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| Country | Name |
| USA | Prodigy Communications Corporation |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "prodigy": a child prodigy ♦ child prodigy ♦ infant prodigy ♦ prodigy infant ♦ prodigy of learning. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "prodigy": child-prodigy. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
prodigy | 3,222 | prodigy of mobb deep | 22 |
link mail prodigy | 596 | miembros prodigy | 20 |
mail prodigy | 128 | mailink prodigy | 20 |
prodigy internet | 122 | breathe lyrics prodigy | 20 |
home prodigy | 69 | 7.1 prodigy | 20 |
lyrics prodigy | 57 | discography prodigy | 19 |
prodigy sbc | 52 | prodigy band | 18 |
child prodigy | 47 | the prodigy video | 17 |
tekonsha prodigy | 46 | elite prodigy | 15 |
the prodigy music | 45 | bitch prodigy smack up | 15 |
home page prodigy | 44 | breathe the prodigy | 14 |
brake controller prodigy | 37 | 1 prodigy | 13 |
prodigy email | 33 | centro de mensajes prodigy | 13 |
prodigy taiji | 32 | firestarter lyrics prodigy | 12 |
pergo prodigy | 30 | picture of prodigy | 12 |
mexico prodigy | 29 | fat land prodigy | 12 |
infinitum prodigy | 27 | prodigy internet service | 11 |
prodigy mp3 | 24 | liam prodigy | 11 |
access numbers prodigy | 22 | prodigy telmex | 11 |
brake control prodigy | 22 | firestarter prodigy | 11 |
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| Language | Translations for "prodigy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | ogur (augury, foretoken, omen, portent), mrekulli (marvel, miracle, theurgy, wonder, wonderwork), i talentuar jashtëzakonshëm. (various references) | |
Arabic | معجزة (marvel, miracle, portent, wonder), طفل عبقري, الإنسان لغز عجيب, اعجوبة, آية (verse). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | чудо (marvel, miracle, portent, ripping, wonder), феномен (apparition, phenomenon). (various references) | |
Czech | zázrak (marvel, miracle, wonder), zázraèné dítì, div (marvel, miracle, wonder). (various references) | |
Dutch | wonder (miracle). (various references) | |
Farsi | چیزغیرعادی , اعجوبه (Monster, Wonder), شگفتی (Amazement, Marvel, Portent, Singular, Singularity), بسیارزیرک . (various references) | |
Finnish | ihmelapsi (infant prodigy). (various references) | |
French | prodige. (various references) | |
German | Wunderkind (child prodigy, infant prodigy). (various references) | |
Greek | σημείο (note, place, point, sign, signal, spot, token, virgule), ασυνήθιστο, τέρασ (abortion, freak, monster), θαύμα (marvel, miracle, wonder). (various references) | |
Hebrew | יל" פלא (infant prodigy, whizz kid), פלא (marvel, miracle, wonder), עלוי (genius). (various references) | |
Hungarian | csodálatos tehetség, csoda (marvel, miracle, wonder). (various references) | |
Indonesian | keajaiban (marvel, miracle, mystery, oddity, remarkableness, wonder). (various references) | |
Italian | prodigio (marvel, wonder, wonder of the world), portento (portent, wonder). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 秀才, 俊秀 (genius, talented person), 俊才 (genius, talented person). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | しゅうさい (listing), しゅ"しゅう (genius, talented person), しゅ"さい (genius, person of exceptional talent, talented person), し"どう (impact, new road, oscillation, shock, tremor, vibration, wonder child), ひぼ" (extraordinary, rare, unique), いさい (conspicuous colour, details, genius, great talent, particulars, remarkable man), て"さい (disaster, genius, horizon, natural calamity, natural gift, reprinting, sugar beet), えいしゅ" (a genius). (various references) | |
Manx | yindys (admiration, marvel, phenomenon, surprise, wonder, wonderment). (various references) | |
Norwegian | vidunder. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | odigypray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | prodígio (marvel, miracle, phenomenon, portent, wonder, wonderment, wonderwork), portento (portent, wonder, wonderwork), pateta (batty, booby, calf, chuckle-head, chump, clod-poll, coot, cracky, crazy, cuddy, daft, dolt, doodle, driveller, dumb, dupe, fanny, fat-head, fool, gander, gawk, goof, goofy, goose, idiot, jackanapes, jay, jolterhead, josser, juggins, know-nothing, loggerhead, looby, lubber-head, lummox, mooncalf, mutt, mutton-headed, natural, nincompoop, ninny, ninny-hammer, nitwitted, noddy, noodle, numskull, oaf, poop, pudding-head, rattle-brained, rattle-headed, sawney, silly, simp, simpleton, slob, softhead, softy, spoony, stupid, sucker, tomfool, tom-noddy, zany), simplório (calvish, cuddy, cully, dotterel, gaby, gander, goose, juggins, lummox, muggins, mutt, natural, nincompoop, ninny, ninny-hammer, noddy, noodle, oaf, pigeon, sawney, simp, simple, simple-minded, simpleton, soft, softhead, softy, spoon, spoony, sucker, weak, woodcock, zany), nota natural (natural), maravilha (knockout, marigold, marvel, miracle, portent, wonder, wonderment, wonderwork), idiota (fat-head, fool, idiot, idiotic, imbecile, jay, jerk, jolterhead, mooncalf, moron, natural, numskull, oaf, silly, slaphappy, softhead, stupid, sucker, tomfool). (various references) | |
Romanian | minune (marvel, miracle, portent, wonder), minunãţie (marvel, miracle, wonder), jiganie (bugbear, fright), fenomen (fact, occurrence, phenomenon). (various references) | |
Russian | чудо (marvel, miracle, phoenix, portent, wonder, wonderwork, wonder-work). (various references) | |
Scottish | mìorbhuil (a miracle, miracle, wonder). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | čudo (marvel, miracle, wonder, wonderwork). (various references) | |
Spanish | prodigio (marvel, portent, wonder). (various references) | |
Swedish | vidunder (juggernaut, miracle, monster, monstrosity, orc). (various references) | |
Turkish | olağanüstü şey (humdinger, lulu, marvel, phenomenon, ripsnorter), mucize (marvel, miracle, wonder), harika (beautiful, bully, cool, corking, divine, fabulous, fantastic, fantastical, far out, gorgeous, groovy, immense, in the groove, jolly good, keen, marvel, marvellous, marvelous, miracle, no mean, old, phenomenal, phenomenon, prodigious, ripping, scrumptious, splendid, swell, whizz, wicked, wizard, wonder, wonderful, wondrous, yummy, yum-yum), dahi (also, as well, eke, even, genius, item, likewise, too, wizard). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | чудо (marvel, miracle, phenix, phenomenon, Phoenix, wonder), надзвичайно обдарована людина, диво (miracle, portent, whiz, whizz, wonderment). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | người thần kỳ, kỳ diệu phi thường. (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | ostenta, prodigia, prodigiis, prodigiorum, prodigium. (various references) |
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Misspellings | |
"Prodigy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: podgily, proaigy, procigy, prodegy, prodge, prodi, prodigi, prodigm, prodog, prodogy, progidy, Prosig, protagy, prudgy. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "prodigy" (pronounced prÄ"dujē) |
| 3 | -u j ē | analogy, anesthesiology, anthology, anthropology, apology, archaeology, archeology, astrology, bacteriology, biology, biotechnology, cardiology, chronology, cosmetology, cosmology, criminology, cytology, dendrochronology, dermatology, kinesiology, doxology, ecology, elegy, embryology, endocrinology, entomology, epidemiology, epistemology, ethnology, ethology, etiology, etymology, eulogy, genealogy, geology, geomorphology, gerontology, graphology, gynecology, histology, Hymnology, ideology, immunology, limnology, meteorology, methodology, microbiology, micropaleontology, mineralogy, morphology, mycology, mythology, neurology, numerology, oncology, ontology, ophthalmology, ornithology, otology, paleontology, pathology, penology, petrology, pharmacology, physiology, Pomology, psychology, radiology, rheumatology, seismology, serology, sociology, strategy, terminology, theology, toxicology, trilogy, urology, virology, zoology. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-g-i-o-p-r-y" | |
-2 letters: gripy, grody, pirog, podgy, porgy, pyoid, ridgy. | |
-3 letters: dogy, dopy, dorp, dory, drip, drop, gird, giro, gorp, gory, grid, grip, gyri, gyro, orgy, pogy, prig, prod, prog, ropy, yird, yogi. | |
-4 letters: dig, dip, dog, dor, dry, gid, gip, god, gor, goy, gyp, pig, pod, poi, pro, pry, rid, rig, rip, rod, yid, yip. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-g-i-o-p-r-y" | |
+1 letter: porridgy. | |
+2 letters: parodying, pterygoid. | |
+3 letters: droopingly, ideography, prodigally, pterygoids. | |
+4 letters: copyreading, copyrighted, deploringly, discography, prodigality, pteridology, radiography, redeploying, videography. | |
+5 letters: cardiography, hydrographic, hydroplaning, premodifying, prodigiously. | |
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