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Definition of 'Frankenstein'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) Frankenstein
a destructive agency that cannot be controlled or that brings about the creator's ruin.

2. Frankenstein
a monster shaped like a human being.

3. Frankenstein
the creator of such an agency or monster.

Etymology: (1830–40; after the creator of a monster in Mary Shelley's novel of the same name (1818))

Definition of 'Frankenstein'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) Frankenstein
an agency that escapes control and destroys its creator

2. (noun) Frankenstein, Frankenstein's monster
the monster created by Frankenstein in a gothic novel by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (the creator's name is commonly used to refer to his creation)

3. (noun) Frankenstein
the fictional Swiss scientist who was the protagonist in a gothic novel by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley; he created a monster from parts of corpses

Definitions of 'Frankenstein'

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

1. Frankenstein
a monster of romance created without a soul, yet not without craving for human sympathy, who found existence on these terms a curse, as a man with high cravings might find science to be without God.

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