PYGMALION

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• PYGMALION (noun)
  The noun PYGMALION has 1 sense:

1. (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

  Familiarity information: PYGMALION used as a noun is very rare.

• PYGMALION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

mythical being (an imaginary being of myth or fable)

Domain category:

Greek mythology (the mythology of the ancient Greeks)