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Cosa (chi) è prodigal - definizione
1955 FILM BY RICHARD THORPE
The Prodigal (film)
prodigal
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Prodigal; Prodigal (disambiguation); Prodigal (song)
I. a.
Wasteful, lavish, extravagant, profuse.
II. n.
Spendthrift, waster, squanderer.
prodigal
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Prodigal; Prodigal (disambiguation); Prodigal (song)
(prodigals)
1.
You can describe someone as a prodigal son or daughter if they leave their family or friends, often after a period of behaving badly, and then return at a later time as a better person. (LITERARY)
ADJ: usu ADJ n
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Prodigal is also a noun.
...the prodigal had returned.
N-COUNT
2.
Someone who behaves in a prodigal way spends a lot of money carelessly without thinking about what will happen when they have none left.
Prodigal habits die hard.
ADJ: usu ADJ n
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Prodigal; Prodigal (disambiguation); Prodigal (song)
¦ adjective
1. wastefully extravagant.
2. lavish.
¦ noun a prodigal person.
?(also prodigal son or daughter) a person who leaves home to lead a prodigal life but returns repentant. [with allusion to the parable in Luke 15:11-32.]
Derivatives
prodigality noun
prodigally adverb
Origin
ME: from late L. prodigalis, from L. prodigus 'lavish'.
Wikipedia
The Prodigal
The Prodigal is a 1955 Eastmancolor biblical epic CinemaScope film made by MGM starring Lana Turner and Edmund Purdom. It was based on the New Testament parable about a selfish son who leaves his family to pursue a life of pleasure. The film also features James Mitchell, Louis Calhern, Joseph Wiseman, Cecil Kellaway, Audrey Dalton, and Walter Hampden. Dancer Taina Elg made her film debut in The Prodigal.
Esempi dal corpus di testo per prodigal
1. Prodigal sons and daughters have begun to return.
2. The West is becoming a nursery of spoilt shopaholics, prodigal wasters, landfill–junkies.
3. But the prodigal sons also include two who, not coincidentally, have become media darlings.
4. Today, it has helped ensure his election as Japan‘s prodigal samurai returned.
5. There was Louis back again, triumphant and full of smiles like the prodigal son.