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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
marvel
I.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
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▪ I walked down it from the top to bottom and could only marvel at the way it had been constructed.
▪ But all parties marvel at the way Meier has managed to take advantage of the site.
▪ They marched past it, back and forth, marvelling at the way they were drawn towards it.
▪ I marvel at the way so great a power is falling so gentle on the earth.
▪ John marvelled at the way it seemed to be thinking for itself.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ At the back of his mind, he marvelled that Lorton had bothered to give him anything at all.
▪ Gratefully Gina covered her nakedness, marvelling at the strange circumstances in which she found herself.
▪ Her body had soon regained its youthful shape and he marvelled how trim she looked.
▪ I marvel, too, at the confidence exhibited by the hosts of such shows.
▪ I walked down it from the top to bottom and could only marvel at the way it had been constructed.
▪ Indeed, anyone who has seen her perform can not fail to marvel.
▪ Sleep-deprived viewers in altered states of consciousness can marvel at the jaw-dropping splendor of animated Cecil B.. DeMille shots.
II.noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The bridge is an engineering marvel.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A properly working Macintosh is a marvel, but a Macintosh with an undiagnosed software problem is slow torture.
▪ And the engineering marvel turned out to be a slow-motion natural disaster.
▪ Stanley Gascgoine, a green marvel with a two-pronged attack, left foot, right foot or head.
▪ Suddenly every finger was a marvel and a joy to him.
▪ The marvel is that more is different.
▪ There was a sensual anticipation about, an assurance of marvels shortly to be, manifest.
▪ Under the concentrated fire from front and flank, the marvel is that any escaped.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Marvel

Marvel \Mar"vel\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Marveledor Marvelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Marveling or Marvelling.] [OE. merveilen, OF. merveillier.] To be struck with surprise, astonishment, or wonder; to wonder.

Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you.
--1 john iii. 13.

Marvel

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.]

  1. That which causes wonder; a prodigy; a miracle.

    I will do marvels such as have not been done.
    --Ex. xxxiv. 10.

    Nature's sweet marvel undefiled.
    --Emerson.

  2. Wonder. [R.] ``Use lessens marvel.''
    --Sir W. Scott.

Marvel

Marvel \Mar"vel\, v. t.

  1. To marvel at. [Obs.]
    --Wyclif.

  2. To cause to marvel, or be surprised; -- used impersonally.

    But much now me marveleth.
    --Rich. the Redeless.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
marvel

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 things," from neuter plural of mirabilis "wonderful, marvelous, extraordinary; strange, singular," from mirari "to wonder at," from mirus "wonderful" (see smile). A neuter plural treated in Vulgar Latin as a feminine singular. Related: Marvels.

marvel

c.1300, "to be filled with wonder," from Old French merveillier "to wonder at, be astonished," from merveille (see marvel (n.)). Related: Marveled; marveling.

Wiktionary
marvel

n. 1 That which causes wonder; a prodigy; a miracle. 2 wonder, astonishment. vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To become filled with wonderment or admiration; to be amazed at something. 2 (context obsolete transitive English) To marvel at. 3 (context obsolete transitive used impersonally English) To cause to marvel or be surprised.

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WordNet
marvel

  1. n. something that causes feelings of wonder; "the wonders of modern science" [syn: wonder]

  2. [also: marvelling, marvelled]

marvel

  1. v. be amazed at; "We marvelled at the child's linguistic abilities" [syn: wonder]

  2. express astonishment or surprise about something

  3. [also: marvelling, marvelled]

Wikipedia
Marvel

Marvel may refer to:

Marvel (album)

Marvel is the third full-length release from the New Zealand Christian rock band The Lads. Following its release in 2001 it won "Gospel Album of the Year" at the 2002 New Zealand Music Awards.

Marvel (automobile)

The Marvel was an automobile built at 284-290 Rivard Street, Detroit, Michigan, United States, by the Marvel Motor Car Company in 1907. The Marvel was a two-seater runabout. It came equipped with a horizontal two-cylinder engine, with a planetary transmission and single chain drive.

Marvel (food)

Marvel is a United Kingdom brand of dried milk powder, now marketed by Premier Foods.

Marvel (name)

Marvel is both a surname and a given name. Notable people and characters with the name include:

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.