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# marvel

«marvel» in Mova's school dictionary: **a wonderful, amazing thing or person** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (marvel, marvels, marvelled/marveled, marvelling/marveling); noun (a marvel, marvels)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A marvel is a wonderful, amazing thing or person. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/marvel/#m1)

2) To marvel at something is to feel great surprise and admiration. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/marvel/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In stories and science: the marvels of nature, the marvels of technology. In everyday talk: «It's a marvel you didn't fall.» Phrases: marvel at, a marvel of.

### examples

- The pyramids are one of the marvels of the ancient world. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/marvel/#x1)
- We marvelled at the stars. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/marvel/#x2)
- The new bridge is a marvel of engineering. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/marvel/#x3)
- It's a marvel that nobody was hurt. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/marvel/#x4)
- Grandma marvels at how fast I type. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/marvel/#x5)
- The museum is full of marvels. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/marvel/#x6)
- And they took the marvels with them to his court. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/marvel/#x7)

### note

UK spelling: marvelled, marvelling; US spelling: marveled, marveling. Adjective: marvellous (UK), marvelous (US). Marvel is also the name of a comic company; that use has a capital M.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «marvel» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/marvel/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.