marvellous

«marvellous» in Mova's school dictionary: Extremely good, wonderful: «a marvellous day» — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective (marvellous — UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand; marvelous — US; more marvellous, most marvellous)

meaning for a pupil

1) Extremely good, wonderful: «a marvellous day». tree →

2) (old use) Causing great wonder or surprise; amazing. tree →

sense in the lessons

A happy word in stories and everyday British talk, a little old-fashioned or posh. In The Wind in the Willows Toad calls everything «marvellous» when he is excited, and Alice finds marvellous things in Wonderland.

examples

• We had a marvellous time at the seaside. tree →
• «What a marvellous idea!» said Gran. tree →
• The view from the hill was marvellous. tree →
• Toad thought the motor car was the most marvellous thing in the world. tree →
• The magician did marvellous tricks. tree →
• You did a marvellous job on your painting. tree →
• There sprang up a marvellous crop--tall and thick. tree →

note

Spelling: UK marvellous (double l), US marvelous (one l). From «marvel» (a wonderful thing; to wonder at). Similar: wonderful, splendid, fantastic.

In the corpora

• 'As in the days of thy coming forth out of the land of Egypt will I show unto him marvellous things.'
• I will give thanks unto the LORD with my whole heart; I will tell of all Thy marvellous works.
• Marvellous things did He in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
• Declare His glory among the nations, His marvellous works among all the peoples.
• Sing unto Him, sing praises unto Him; speak ye of all His marvellous works.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «marvellous» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.