All 3 Uses of
prodigious
in
Kidnapped
- ...nothing living on it but game birds ... and the gulls which haunted the outlying rocks in a prodigious number.
Chpt 14 *prodigious = enormous (a very large number)
- It makes the country strong to hold and difficult to travel, but full of prodigious wild and dreadful prospects.†
Chpt 16
- It found us in a prodigious valley, strewn with rocks and where ran a foaming river.†
Chpt 20
Definition:
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(prodigious) enormous; or far beyond what is usual in magnitude or degree