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Frankenstein definition

Frank·en·stein (fraŋ′kən stīn′)

noun

  1. the title character in a novel (1818) by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: he is a young medical student who creates a monster that destroys him
  2. popularly Frankenstein's monster
  3. any person destroyed by his or her own creation
  4. anything that becomes dangerous to its creator

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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