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# marvellously

«marvellously» in Mova's school dictionary: **In a wonderful, excellent way** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adverb (marvellously; US spelling marvelously)

### meaning for a pupil

1) In a wonderful, excellent way. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/marvellously/#m1)

2) Very, extremely (a bit old-fashioned), as in «marvellously happy». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/marvellously/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

A warm, enthusiastic word in British stories and speech; Toad often says things are «marvellous». It tells the reader something went really well.

### examples

- The plan worked marvellously. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/marvellously/#x1)
- The children behaved marvellously at the wedding. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/marvellously/#x2)
- She sang marvellously in the concert. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/marvellously/#x3)
- Everything went marvellously well. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/marvellously/#x4)
- The garden looked marvellously green after the rain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/marvellously/#x5)
- Toad thought he drove marvellously. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/marvellously/#x6)
- He was marvellously arrayed and full armed, and his black dog moved after him. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/marvellously/#x7)

### note

UK: marvellously (double l); USA: marvelously (single l). From «marvel» (a wonder).

### In the corpora

- [God thundereth marvellously with His voice; great things doeth He, which we cannot comprehend.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.978/)
- [And his name spread far abroad; for he was marvellously helped, till he was strong.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/2CH.591/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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