marvel

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Etymology

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”).

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)vəl

Noun

marvel (plural marvels)

1. That which causes wonder; a prodigy; a miracle.
2. Surprise, astonishment.

Translations

miracle

• Romanian: minune (ro) f, miracol (ro) n, minunăție (ro) f
• Russian: чудо (ru) (čudo) n

• Scottish Gaelic: mìorbhail (gd) f

astonishment

• Romanian: uimire (ro) f, surprindere (ro) f
• Russian: чудо (ru) (čudo) n

• Scottish Gaelic: mìorbhail (gd)

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• Esperanto: mirindaĵo (eo)
• Spanish: maravilla (es) f

Verb

marvel (third-person singular simple present marvels, present participle marvelling (UK) or marveling (US), simple past and past participle marvelled (UK) or marveled (US))

1. (intransitive) To become filled with wonderment or admiration; to be amazed at something.
   • Bible, 1 John iii. 13

     Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you.

2. (obsolete, transitive) To marvel at.

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3. (obsolete, transitive, used impersonally) To cause to marvel or be surprised.
   • Richard the Redeless

     But much now me marvelleth.

Translations

become filled with wonderment

• Finnish: ihmetellä (fi), kummastella (fi), kummaksua (fi), äimistellä (fi)
• Russian: (intransitive) восторгаться, восхищаться, изумляться, недоумевать, удивляться; (transitive) изумляться, удивляться, восхищаться