Usually means: Sculptor falls in love; transformation.
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  1. pygmalion: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. Pygmalion, Pygmalion: Merriam-Webster
  3. Pygmalion, Pygmalion: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. Pygmalion: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. Pygmalion: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Pygmalion: Vocabulary.com
  7. Pygmalion: Wordnik
  8. pygmalion: Wiktionary
  9. Pygmalion: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. Pygmalion: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. Pygmalion: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Pygmalion: Dictionary.com
  13. Pygmalion (Rousseau), Pygmalion (album), Pygmalion (disambiguation), Pygmalion (film), Pygmalion (melodrama), Pygmalion (mythology), Pygmalion (opera), Pygmalion (play), Pygmalion: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Pygmalion: Rhymezone
  15. pygmalion: FreeDictionary.org
  16. pygmalion: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. Pygmalion: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. Pygmalion: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Pygmalion: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Pygmalion: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Pygmalion: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Pygmalion)

noun:  One who acts as the legendary Greek sculptor Pygmalion (who was granted the wish of having life given to a sculpture of his which he fell deeply in love with), as in George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion in which he sometimes refers to his main character (Henry Higgins) as Pygmalion Higgins.
noun:  (Greek mythology) A legendary sculptor who was granted the wish of having life given to a sculpture of his which he fell deeply in love with.
noun:  Alternative form of pygmalion (β€œone who acts in a way reminiscent of the sculptor”) [One who acts as the legendary Greek sculptor Pygmalion (who was granted the wish of having life given to a sculpture of his which he fell deeply in love with), as in George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion in which he sometimes refers to his main character (Henry Higgins) as Pygmalion Higgins.]

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