Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One that evokes surprise, admiration, or wonder. See Synonyms at wonder.
- n. Strong surprise; astonishment.
- v. To become filled with wonder or astonishment.
- v. To feel amazement or bewilderment at or about: We marveled that they walked away unhurt from the car accident.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. That which causes wonder; an astonishing thing; a wonder; a prodigy.
- n. Admiration; astonishment; wonder.
- To wonder at; be struck with surprise at; be perplexed with curiosity about: with a clause for object.
- To be filled with admiration, astonishment, or amazement; wonder.
- To appear wonderful; seem or be a wonder.
- Wonderful; marvelous.
Wiktionary
- n. That which causes wonder; a prodigy; a miracle.
- n. Surprise, astonishment.
- v. intransitive To become filled with wonderment or admiration; to be amazed at something.
- v. obsolete, transitive To marvel at.
- v. obsolete, transitive To cause to marvel or be surprised.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. That which causes wonder; a prodigy; a miracle.
- n. rare Wonder.
- v. To be struck with surprise, astonishment, or wonder; to wonder.
- v. obsolete To marvel at.
- v. obsolete To cause to marvel, or be surprised; -- used impersonally.
WordNet 3.0
- v. be amazed at
- v. express astonishment or surprise about something
- n. something that causes feelings of wonder
Etymologies
- First attested from 1300, from Middle English marvail, from Old French merveille ("a wonder"), from Vulgar Latin *miribilia, from Latin mirabilia ("wonderful things"), from neuter plural of mirabilis ("strange, wonderful"), from miror ("I wonder at"), from mirus ("wonderful"). (Wiktionary)
- Middle English marvail, from Old French merveille, from Vulgar Latin *miribilia, alteration of Latin mīrābilia, wonderful things, from neuter pl. of mīrābilis, wonderful, from mīrārī, to wonder, from mīrus, wonderful; see smei- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Then, with the same rapid step and preoccupied face, he made the round of the whole garden, and showed his former ward all his greenhouses and hot-houses, his covered-in garden, and two apiaries which he called the marvel of our century.”
“May 19, 2009 at 3: 36 pm marvel is such a disappointment.”
“Poul Anderson's short story "The Man Who Came Early" pits an ordinary modern with a gun against the successful merchants and political leaders of a pre-gun society -- and the ordinary man discovers a technological marvel is no match for high-level social sophistication.”
“October 27, 2007 at 11: 42 pm what id love to see is a continuation from what we got shown in marvel zombies vs army of darkness what am i talking about good old werewolfs it would be cool to see a zombies vs wolfs after they use the transdimensional device that would BE SWEET”
Marvel Zombies 2 #1 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News
“Look what marvel is doing so far, they have had nick fury in iron man, and iron man in hulk.”
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“Also there's a lot of bad guys in marvel, Use them.”
Is Hulk Destined to Become a Bad Guy in The Avengers? « FirstShowing.net
“I'll bet marvel is going to crank out such shitty rushed movies and copout and say they had to for the avengers.”
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“After seeing all of this and how marvel is weaving their movies together I would LOVE to see them do a Secret Wars movie/duology.”
Marvel Announces Next Four Films - Iron Man, Thor, Captain America, Avengers! « FirstShowing.net
“I'm actually really glad that marvel is handling all their films themselves now because now there can be more awesome cross-overs and now the Marvel universe can exist in the films as well as the comics.”
Marvel Announces Next Four Films - Iron Man, Thor, Captain America, Avengers! « FirstShowing.net
“Served in a glass dish, this little marvel is a sweetened, beaten and baked egg white island floating on a sea of custard (crème anglaise).”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘marvel’.
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Gene Wolfe
Please contribute your favorite words from any of Gene Wolfe’s books to this prize-winning list.
In case you come across words in this list which are too commonplace to fit in, please ...gallipot, roost, badelaire, oblesque, execration, dhole, amschaspand, arctother, chalcedony, penitence, asimi, autarch and 839 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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RELI - Genesis
Protagonists and relevant words in the Book of Creation (Source: King James Bible)
Laban, circumcise, beget, Esau, Rebekah, speckle, Sodom, Pharaoh, Canaanite, Canaan, Jacob, Lot and 1286 more...
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LIT - Odyssey - key words and phrases
Key words of the Odyssey by Homer in English including all those famous repeating epitethons like
"bright-eyed Athene"
"wine-dark sea"
"rosy-fingered dawn"
"long suf...yearling, wild celery, Wain, Themis, talon, slither, sedge, sea eagle, scurf, rile, prevaricate, poplar tree and 732 more...
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Fancy Frills
Words I might not use in day to day language..
condescending, belligerent, antepenultimate, impasse, agonistic, decrepit, cathartic., Evanesce, dog ear, uber, gibber, audacious and 4 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
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the first list
an immense, grandiloquent list that loads like a thousand years sentence in stone. new words are in the other lists.
ridiculous, brummagem, predicament, sanctimonious, vapid, eschew, admonish, auspicious, capitulation, enumerate, lachrymose, tenet and 1648 more...
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diioxyde's Words
macabre, egypt, egyptology, queen, love, sex, sister, lover, web, cobweb, line, circle and 223 more...
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eggplantia5's Words
scintillate, marvel, cranberry, oscillate, triumph, bamboozle, grimace, magical, book, hexagon, cipher, compendium and 2727 more...
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Vocabulary Words
words to reference while writing something
cohesive, epitome, tempered, imply, prudent, sundry, sagest, agitation, giddy, disposition, inclination, gracious and 114 more...
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colleen's words
yellow, green, pie, blue, fur, people, incense, book, brown, avuncular, mountain, fog and 1316 more...
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If-Christ-Had-Not-Died-For-Thee-Thou-...
Words that have been used as baby names, including virtue names, nature names, place names, etc.
The title is an actual name given to a Puritan boy in the 17th century.faith, hope, grace, charity, chastity, prudence, patience, temperance, river, phoenix, stone, violet and 455 more...
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Words Covered in Faery Dust (M)
words that evoke magic, mystery, mayhem, magnificence or anything else that glimmers in the grass
mace, macintosh, madras, magenta, magic 8 ball, magma, mahogany, maiden, mail, mainsail, maize, malachite and 169 more...
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Words I like
This is a list of my favourite words (phrases) in english, as a second language. I love them mostly because of how they sound and their meaning.
ninja, cookie, skill, zip, plentiful, digg, debris, pancake, cucumber, fetch, pot, backpack and 461 more...
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Like
All adjectives that praise.. complement
sift, dog ear, uber, alpha male, audacious, musing, marvel, biopic, onset
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Just 'cause I like 'em, M
metamerism, malady, margin, marauder, maverick, mercury, mirth, mandible, macerate, meteor, manumission, mica and 292 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for marvel.

itz_chucknorris THE AVENGERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sep 11, 2012