prodigy

noun5

1. •
   An amazing or marvellous thing; a wonder.

   • He is never chased; he would run away with rope-walks of line. Prodigies are told of him. — 1851
2. •
   An extremely talented person, especially a child.
3. •
   A wonderful example of something.
4. •
   An extraordinary occurrence or creature; an anomaly, especially a monster; a freak.
5. •
   (no longer used) An extraordinary thing seen as an omen; a portent.

   • These on the farther bank now stood and gazed, / By Heaven alarm’d, by prodigies amazed: / A signal omen stopp’d the passing host, / Their martial fury in their wonder lost. — 1717