Definition of "marvel" []

• One that evokes surprise, admiration, or wonder. See Synonyms at wonder. (noun)
• Strong surprise; astonishment. (noun)
• To become filled with wonder or astonishment. (verb-intransitive)
• To feel amazement or bewilderment at or about: We marveled that they walked away unhurt from the car accident. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Then, with the same rapid step and preoccupied face, he made the round of the whole garden, and showed his former ward all his greenhouses and hot-houses, his covered-in garden, and two apiaries which he called the marvel of our century."
• "May 19, 2009 at 3: 36 pm marvel is such a disappointment."
• "Poul Anderson's short story "The Man Who Came Early" pits an ordinary modern with a gun against the successful merchants and political leaders of a pre-gun society -- and the ordinary man discovers a technological marvel is no match for high-level social sophistication."