Frankenstein

Meanings

Proper Noun

  • , the creator of Frankenstein's monster in the 1818 novel by Mary Shelley
  • Frankenstein's monster itself, the monster of the 1818 novel by Mary Shelley
  • Ząbkowice Śląskie, town voivodeship, Lower Silesian Voivodeship Poland (country) .

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Origin

  • From German Frankenstein.
  • The usage of mad scientist and monster, and verb form, derives from the concept from the science-fiction gothic horror novel Frankenstein, where mad scientist Victor Frankenstein creates his Frankenstein's monster from a mash up of pieces of corpses.

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