Pygmalion

Other forms: Pygmalions

Definitions of Pygmalion
  1. noun
    (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
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    an imaginary being of myth or fable
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