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marvel

[mahr-vuh

noun

something that causes wonder, admiration, or astonishment; a wonderful thing; a wonder or prodigy: The new bridge is an engineering marvel.

Archaic. the feeling of wonder; astonishment.

verb (used with object)

to wonder at (usually followed by a clause as object): I marvel that you were able to succeed against such odds.

to wonder or be curious about (usually followed by a clause as object): A child marvels that the stars can be.

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verb (used without object)

to be filled with wonder, admiration, or astonishment, as at something surprising or extraordinary: I marvel at your courage.

Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English mervel < Old French merveil(l)e < Late Latin mīrābilia marvels, noun use of neuter plural of Latin mīrābilis marvelous. See admirable

Related forms

mar·vel·ment, noun

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Example Sentences

Located beside the lake for which the city is named, the campus is spectacular and visitors marvel at its beauty.

Technically, the world's first fully fledged open-source virtual currency is a marvel.

Even for creatures as ingenious as ants, it's a device to marvel at.

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Located beside the lake for which the city is named, the campus is spectacular and visitors marvel at its beauty.

Technically, the world's first fully fledged open-source virtual currency is a marvel.

Even for creatures as ingenious as ants, it's a device to marvel at.

McNutt¿a marvel of efficiency on land¿noticeably relaxes.

The setting is spectacular and the house is a marvel.

As you marvel at my math skills, let me point out that all of these words add up.

When all goes well, you marvel at the speed and reliability of the technology.

Marvel at the revolutionary imaging system used to guide a surgeon's scalpel in a delicate brain-tumor operation.

The medical marvel survived rabies without vaccination.

The international community also needs to step up and save this marvel.

Like finding a cobra under your kitchen chair, you will marvel that you never saw it around the house, before.

Now it is economists' turn to marvel at the scale and pace of events.

So it is with the refrigerator, a modern marvel that has become roughly as thrilling as a toaster oven.

Whatever the reason, one has to marvel at the complex ways the world and our bodies work.

There you can admire stone rings used to calculate astronomical cycles and you can also marvel at the remains of a mural.

But he has delivered an illuminating study of an evolutionary marvel.

In fall, marvel at the kaleidoscopic transformation of leaf colors.

But he might as easily have been referring to the ungainly marvel that made it possible.

Indeed, the marvel is that any mergers create value at all.

Marvel at the opulence and architectural splendor of these amazing structures.

Cost of operations and astronomical seat per mile revenue put an end to this engineering marvel.

The marvel of pterosaur flight has evolutionary echoes that resonate even today.

One can but marvel at her foresight and the scope of her success.

The marvel of such public goods is that one firm's use of them does not make them less useful to others.

The luminescent quartz marvel is studded with rare barrerite and fluorite crystals that sparkle in the dark.

They come to marvel at temples built from perfectly chiseled.

We marvel at the articulated bones of these creatures in museums, and while.

It was a marvel to see so much creativity and enthusiasm for the project.

Hunley, a technological marvel that changed the world.

The common housefly is a marvel of aeronautical engineering.

We marvel at the ice sculptures, the magician, and the juggler.

If you can stay on pitch, people will marvel at you and compliment you to the stars.

There's not much time to marvel at it all because of the urgency of our work.

D'Herelle identified the microscopic marvel as a new type of parasite.

It is worth visiting the show rooms if for no other reason than to marvel at how fortune's wheel keeps turning.

If one truly embraces the tablet ethos they will be rewarded with a sense of technological marvel and fullfilment.

One has to marvel at the ingenuity of those responsible for such computer viruses.

Small enough to pack in a pocket, this solid little timepiece is a precision marvel of miniaturization.

One of the many reasons for this is the marvel of the jury.

There's much more for us to marvel about sharks than their power and ferocity.

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World English Dictionary

marvel (ˈmɑːv^əl)

—vb (when intr, often foll by at or about; when tr, takes a clause as object) , (US) -vels, -velling, -velled, -vels, -veling, -veled
1.	to be filled with surprise or wonder

—n
2.	something that causes wonder
3.	archaic astonishment

[C13: from Old French merveille, from Late Latin mīrābilia, from Latin mīrābilis, from mīrārī to wonder at]

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Word Origin & History

marvel

c.1300, "miracle," also "wonderful story or legend," from O.Fr. merveille "a wonder," from V.L. *miribilia, alt. from L. mirabilia "wonderful things," from neut. pl. of mirabilis "strange or wonderful," from mirari "to wonder at," from mirus "wonderful" (see smile). A neut.

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pl. treated in V.L. as a fem. sing. The verb is attested from c.1300. Related: Marveled; marveling; marvels.

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