prodigynoun [ C ]
uk/ˈprɒd.ɪ.dʒi/us/ˈprɑː.də.dʒi/someone with a very great ability that usually shows itself when that person is a young child:
The 16-year-old tennis prodigy is the youngest player ever to reach the Olympic finals.
He read in the paper about a mathematical prodigy who was attending university at the age of twelve.
See also
child prodigy
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Experts and specialists
- a mine of information idiom
- academician
- authority
- boffin
- buff
- child prodigy
- consultant
- high priest
- hotshot
- know sth inside out idiom
- literati
- maven
- resident
- superuser
- supremo
- techie
- technician
- technocracy
- technocrat
- virtuoso
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