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miracle

[mir-uh-kuhl]

noun

  1. an effect or extraordinary event in the physical world that surpasses all known human or natural powers and is ascribed to a supernatural cause.

  2. such an effect or event manifesting or considered as a work of God.

  3. a wonder; marvel.

  4. a wonderful or surpassing example of some quality.

    a miracle of modern acoustics.

  5. miracle play.



miracle

/ ˈɪəə /

noun

  1. an event that is contrary to the established laws of nature and attributed to a supernatural cause

  2. any amazing or wonderful event

  3. a person or thing that is a marvellous example of something

    the bridge was a miracle of engineering

  4. short for miracle play

  5. (modifier) being or seeming a miracle

    a miracle cure

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of miracle1

First recorded in 1125–75; Middle English miracle, miracul, from Old French miracle, from Latin ī峦ܱܳ, from ī(ī) “to wonder at” + -culum -cle 2
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Word History and Origins

Origin of miracle1

C12: from Latin ī峦ܱܳ, from īī to wonder at
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Prof Fataar is equally bleak about the future: "I can't see, bar a miracle, how we can increase the finances for poor schools."

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"My farm has become something of a local miracle. People travel from far-off places just to see the apple trees growing under the hot Maharashtra sun."

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Barring any interjections from the weather it would be a minor miracle if this contest now stretches through until Saturday.

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The reveries always end poorly, usually with me shouting something like “Your body is a miracle!” and their owner robot escorting me off its property.

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Or, to paraphrase a Virginia Woolf line from “To the Lighthouse” that Rhys invoked earlier: gets us through are “little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark.”

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