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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. One that evokes surprise, admiration, or wonder. See Synonyms at wonder.
  2. n. Strong surprise; astonishment.
  3. v. To become filled with wonder or astonishment.
  4. v. To feel amazement or bewilderment at or about: We marveled that they walked away unhurt from the car accident.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. That which causes wonder; an astonishing thing; a wonder; a prodigy.
  2. n. Admiration; astonishment; wonder.
  3. To wonder at; be struck with surprise at; be perplexed with curiosity about: with a clause for object.
  4. To be filled with admiration, astonishment, or amazement; wonder.
  5. To appear wonderful; seem or be a wonder.
  6. Wonderful; marvelous.

Wiktionary

  1. n. That which causes wonder; a prodigy; a miracle.
  2. n. Surprise, astonishment.
  3. v. intransitive To become filled with wonderment or admiration; to be amazed at something.
  4. v. obsolete, transitive To marvel at.
  5. v. obsolete, transitive To cause to marvel or be surprised.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. That which causes wonder; a prodigy; a miracle.
  2. n. rare Wonder.
  3. v. To be struck with surprise, astonishment, or wonder; to wonder.
  4. v. obsolete To marvel at.
  5. v. obsolete To cause to marvel, or be surprised; -- used impersonally.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. be amazed at
  2. v. express astonishment or surprise about something
  3. n. something that causes feelings of wonder

Etymologies

  1. 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)
  2. 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)

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synonyms (4)

Words with the same meaning

  1. prodigy
  1. miracle
  1. Wonder
  1. wonder

hypernyms (11)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. respond
  2. react
  1. verbalise
  2. give tongue to
  1. express
  2. verbalize
  1. utter
  2. occurrent
  1. happening
  2. occurrence
  1. natural event

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Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. miracle
  2. feat
  3. wonder
  4. achievement
  1. masterpiece
  2. monument
  3. perfection
  4. prodigy
  1. treasure
  2. grandeur
  3. mystery
  4. triumph
  1. richness
  2. revelation
  3. invention
  4. phenomenon
  1. exhibition
  2. novelty
  3. significance
  4. occurrence
  1. peril

rhymes (2)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. arval
  1. larval

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. mervaille
  2. marvail
  3. merveille
  4. mervele
  1. afternoon-ladies
  2. false jalap
  3. marvel
  4. marl
  1. teratologist
  2. unwonder
  3. selcouth
  4. selly
  1. wonderment
  2. wonderwork
  3. gapeseed
  4. admire
  1. four-o'clock
  2. admiration
  3. astonishment
  4. wonder
  1. phenomenon
  2. monster
  3. prodigy
  4. curiosity

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  1. mervaille

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