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marvel

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WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
v. be amazed at; "We marvelled at the child's linguistic abilities" [syn: wonder ] express astonishment or surprise about something [also: marvelling , marvelled ]

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Marvel \Mar"vel\, n. [OE. mervaile, F. merveille, fr. L. mirabilia wonderful things, pl., fr. mirabilis wonderful, fr. mirari to wonder or marvel at. See Admire , Smile , and cf. Miracle .] That which causes wonder; a prodigy; a miracle. I will do marvels ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, "miracle," also "wonderful story or legend," from Old French merveille "a wonder, surprise, miracle," from Vulgar Latin *miribilia (also source of Spanish maravilla , Portuguese maravilha , Italian maraviglia ), altered from Latin mirabilia "wonderful ...

Usage examples of marvel.

King was, however, accompanied by the court poet Eustache Deschamps, who immediately produced a ballade extolling the marvels of the barony.

He stepped back onto the sidewalk beside Beryal, still marveling at how many wagons rolled up and down the avenue.

We may cease marvelling at the embryo of an air-breathing mammal or bird having branchial slits and arteries running in loops, like those in a fish which has to breathe the air dissolved in water, by the aid of well-developed branchiae.

He had come alone, except for Breck, who was on the other side of the site marveling at the mountain of limestone.

In the hands of a less-accomplished artist, this could well have come off with the same dreadful homogeny of the Conan comics endlessly published by Marvel.

Not as efficient as hydrodynamics, I know, but-ah, I see someone signaling me, so I shall have to leave you here to marvel at the marvel, as it were.

Lo Manto stared at the boy, marveling at his ability to ignore his surroundings and his plight and assume command of his situation.

And all the engineers marveled over the construction of the city itself, with particular marveling reserved for the re- markable Terratin city gimbal support system.

Daylight found the vicar and his wife, a quaintly-costumed little couple, still marvelling about on their own ground floor by the unnecessary light of a guttering candle.

He stopped before leaving to study the picture closely, marvelling at its resemblance to Charles and memorising every minute detail of the cryptical, colourless face, even down to a slight scar or pit in the smooth brow above the right eye.

Surely the King bit his breath, marvelling, and his fury became an awful fear, and he fell back from her, molesting her no further.

Then she calmed down the white flames of the circles that enclosed Shibli Bagarag and the Vizier Feshnavat, and they stepped forth, marvelling at the greatness of her sorceries that held such a Genie in bondage.

Carefully she dried it and cleaned the tip, marvelling that it was so easy, the nib again as good as new.

Anticipation thrilled through my limbs as I pictured marvels equaling the geese, or even the life-sized painted statues of a noble couple that had been found in another mastaba in the same cemetery.

Hearing him talk to Connie now, I marveled yet again at how my only contact in this part of the world, a middle-aged former lawyer normally busy running his antique business, just happened to learn of this particular house halfway across the city, not through his usual antique-market channels but through an acquaintance who knew something about his interest in mirrored rooms.