Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One that evokes surprise, admiration, or wonder. synonym: wonder.
- noun Archaic Strong surprise; astonishment.
- intransitive verb To become filled with wonder or astonishment.
- intransitive verb To feel amazement or bewilderment at or about.
from The Century Dictionary.
- 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.
- noun That which causes wonder; an astonishing thing; a wonder; a prodigy.
- noun Admiration; astonishment; wonder.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To marvel at.
- transitive verb obsolete To cause to marvel, or be surprised; -- used impersonally.
- noun That which causes wonder; a prodigy; a miracle.
- noun rare Wonder.
- intransitive verb To be struck with surprise, astonishment, or wonder; to wonder.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun That which causes
wonder ; aprodigy ; amiracle . - noun
Surprise ,astonishment . - verb intransitive To become filled with
wonderment oradmiration ; to be amazed at something. - verb obsolete, transitive To marvel at.
- verb obsolete, transitive To cause to marvel or be surprised.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb be amazed at
- verb express astonishment or surprise about something
- noun something that causes feelings of wonder
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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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.
The Black Monk 1917
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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.
The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories Anton Pavlovich Chekhov 1882
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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.
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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 2009
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May 19, 2009 at 3: 36 pm marvel is such a disappointment.
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I'll bet marvel is going to crank out such shitty rushed movies and copout and say they had to for the avengers.
Robert Downey Jr. and Don Cheadle Sign On for The Avengers | /Film 2008
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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 2008
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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 2008
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Look what marvel is doing so far, they have had nick fury in iron man, and iron man in hulk.
Justice League and Wolfenstein Movies Both Back on Track! « FirstShowing.net 2008
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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 2008
itz_chucknorris commented on the word marvel
THE AVENGERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
September 12, 2012