• n. 怪物；巨人，巨獸；殘忍的人
• adj. 巨大的，龐大的

來自拉丁語monere,警告，詞源同admonish,monitor.-ster,貶義后綴。用于指怪物，惡魔，在古代出現反常的現象或怪物通常意味著上帝對人的警告。

monster

monster: [13] Monster originated as a word for a ‘divine omen or warning’. It goes back via Old French monstre to Latin mōnstrum, a derivative of the verb monēre ‘warn’. From its original sense ‘warning of misfortune, evil omen’, mōnstrum was transferred to the sort of thing that could function as such an omen – a ‘prodigy’, or a ‘misshapen or horrifying creature’ – whence the meaning of English monster.

The word’s connotations of ‘largeness’ seem to be rather more recent, first emerging in English in the 16th century. Other English derivatives of mōnstrum, some of them reflecting a later sense of monēre, ‘show, inform’, rather than the original ‘warn’, include demonstrate [16], monstrance [16], muster [13] (which originally meant ‘display’), and remonstrate [16].

And from monēre itself come admonish, monitor [16], monument [13], premonition [16], and summon [13].
=> admonish, demonstrate, monitor, monument, muster, premonition, remonstrate, summon

monster (n.)

early 14c., "malformed animal or human, creature afflicted with a birth defect," from Old French monstre, mostre "monster, monstrosity" (12c.), and directly from Latin monstrum "divine omen, portent, sign; abnormal shape; monster, monstrosity," figuratively "repulsive character, object of dread, awful deed, abomination," from root of monere "warn" (see monitor (n.)). Abnormal or prodigious animals were regarded as signs or omens of impending evil. Extended by late 14c. to imaginary animals composed of parts of creatures (centaur, griffin, etc.). Meaning "animal of vast size" is from 1520s; sense of "person of inhuman cruelty or wickedness" is from 1550s. As an adjective, "of extraordinary size," from 1837. In Old English, the monster Grendel was an agl?ca, a word related to agl?c "calamity, terror, distress, oppression."

1. During the 1980s monster publishing houses started to swallow up smaller companies.

20世紀80年代，一些出版巨頭開始吞并一些較小的公司。

來自柯林斯例句

2. She was a monster. For one thing, she really enjoyed cruelty.

她是個惡魔。一方面，她確實以殘忍為樂。

來自柯林斯例句

3. The film will be a monster hit.

這部電影將會非常賣座。

來自柯林斯例句

4. Sarah jokingly called her "my monster"

薩拉戲稱她為“我的怪獸”。

來自柯林斯例句

5. a monster with three heads

三頭怪獸

來自《權威詞典》