FRANKENSTEIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Frankenstein mean? 

• FRANKENSTEIN (noun)
  The noun FRANKENSTEIN has 3 senses:

1. an agency that escapes control and destroys its creator

2. the monster created by Frankenstein in a gothic novel by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (the creator's name is commonly used to refer to his creation)

3. the fictional Swiss scientist who was the protagonist in a gothic novel by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley; he created a monster from parts of corpses

  Familiarity information: FRANKENSTEIN used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FRANKENSTEIN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An agency that escapes control and destroys its creator

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("Frankenstein" is a kind of...):

agency (the state of being in action or exerting power)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The monster created by Frankenstein in a gothic novel by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (the creator's name is commonly used to refer to his creation)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Frankenstein; Frankenstein's monster

Instance hypernyms:

character; fictional character; fictitious character (an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story))

Sense 3

Meaning:

The fictional Swiss scientist who was the protagonist in a gothic novel by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley; he created a monster from parts of corpses

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

character; fictional character; fictitious character (an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story))

 Context examples 

Frankenstein, who was dozing, awoke and asked the cause of the tumult.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

But by adding ordered domains to the ELPs, they created Frankenstein proteins that combine ordered domains and disordered regions leading to so-called partially ordered proteins (POPs), which are equipped with the structural stability of ordered proteins without losing the ELPs ability to become liquid or solid via temperature changes.

(Biomaterial Artificial Protein Helps Heal Tissue, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Sometimes I endeavoured to gain from Frankenstein the particulars of his creature’s formation, but on this point he was impenetrable.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

“This is what it is to live,” he cried; “now I enjoy existence! But you, my dear Frankenstein, wherefore are you desponding and sorrowful!”

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Again there is a sound as of a human voice, but hoarser; it comes from the cabin where the remains of Frankenstein still lie.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I pitied Frankenstein; my pity amounted to horror; I abhorred myself.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Farewell! I leave you, and in you the last of humankind whom these eyes will ever behold. Farewell, Frankenstein!

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

You, who call Frankenstein your friend, seem to have a knowledge of my crimes and his misfortunes.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

My papa is a syndic—he is M. Frankenstein—he will punish you.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

‘Frankenstein! you belong then to my enemy—to him towards whom I have sworn eternal revenge; you shall be my first victim.’

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)