frankenstein
IPA: frˈæŋkʌnstaɪn
Root Word: Frankenstein
noun
- Various small towns in Germany.
- (historical) A former name of Ząbkowice Śląskie, a town in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland.
- (countable) A surname from German.
- Victor Frankenstein or (sometimes proscribed) his monster.
- (sometimes proscribed) A monster composed of body parts from various corpses attached and brought back to life by a mad scientist, typically strong, unable to speak clearly, and misunderstood.
- Synonym of mad scientist
- (fitness) a stretch in which one walks forward with their arms extended while kicking their legs forward to touch their hands.
- Alternative form of Frankenstein [Various small towns in Germany.]
verb
- (transitive, colloquial) To combine two or more similar elements into a consistent entity, or a cohesive idea.
- (fitness) to perform the frankenstein stretch.
- Alternative spelling of Frankenstein [(transitive, colloquial) To combine two or more similar elements into a consistent entity, or a cohesive idea.]
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Examples of "frankenstein" in Sentences
- Frankenstein in popular culture.
- Because for the public, it's Frankenstein.
- So far, there are no frankenstein laptops.
- They might even have a Frankenstein in there.
- Elizabeth Frankenstein is the woman's married name.
- Frankenstein is imprisoned for the death of Justine.
- Purports to be the actual diary of Victor Frankenstein.
- Hours later, the crew finds Frankenstein, and in need of sustenance.
- I think Dr. Frankenstein had something going with his ideas of electricity bringing life through galvanism.
- I hatched a Frankenstein esque plan to vivify the inanimate quot;dragons quot; using the internal organs of fish my geneticist father dissected in his lab.
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