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1. (n.) Pygmalion
(in classical myth) a sculptor who fell in love with the ivory statue of a woman that he had carved.
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1. (noun) Pygmalion
(Greek mythology) a king who created a statue of a woman and fell in love with it; Aphrodite brought the sculpture to life as Galatea
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1. pygmalion
king of Cyprus, is said to have fallen in love with an ivory statue of a maiden he had himself made, and to have prayed Aphrodité to breathe life into it. The request being granted, he married the maiden and became by her the father of Paphus.
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