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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.



miracle

/ ˈmɪrəkəl /

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 mīrāculum, from mīrā(rī) “to wonder at” + -culum -cle 2
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Word History and Origins

Origin of miracle1

C12: from Latin mīrāculum, from mīrārī to wonder at
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Example Sentences

Just two young kids experiencing the panic, pain, and then the miracle, of new birth.

And its crew had fought so hard for a Christmastime miracle that was not to be.

And then the Vatican newspaper: “Pope performs miracle allowing Fidel to walk on water.”

His most famous miracle was making a few loaves and fishes feed a multitude.

And his second most famous miracle was turning water into wine.

But at the root of the unnatural miracles is the natural miracle—the heart of man.

That was how I learnt the strangest tale that ever a man was told, and knew the miracle to which I owed my life.

For the people generally say of him that it would be a miracle if another worse than he could be found.

That fancy dialogue about expresses the legal value of the evidence for this important miracle.

Mais particulierement encore l'exemption de maladies, qui est vn miracle tres-evident.

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