marvellously
part of speech
adverb (marvellously; US spelling marvelously)
meaning for a pupil
1) In a wonderful, excellent way. tree →
2) Very, extremely (a bit old-fashioned), as in «marvellously happy». tree →
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 →
- The children behaved marvellously at the wedding. tree →
- She sang marvellously in the concert. tree →
- Everything went marvellously well. tree →
- The garden looked marvellously green after the rain. tree →
- Toad thought he drove marvellously. tree →
- He was marvellously arrayed and full armed, and his black dog moved after him. tree →
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.
- And his name spread far abroad; for he was marvellously helped, till he was strong.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «marvellously» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.