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Caliban definition

Cali·ban (kal′i ban′, -bən)

noun

a deformed, brutish creature, the slave of Prospero, in Shakespeare's The Tempest

Etymology: form of canibal, cannibal, with interchanged n & l; canibal occurs in Hakluyt's Voyages (1598)

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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