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Wonder   /wˈəndər/   Listen
verb
Wonder  v. i.  (past & past part. wondered; pres. part. wondering)  
1.
To be affected with surprise or admiration; to be struck with astonishment; to be amazed; to marvel. "I could not sufficiently wonder at the intrepidity of these diminutive mortals." "We cease to wonder at what we understand."
2.
To feel doubt and curiosity; to wait with uncertain expectation; to query in the mind; as, he wondered why they came. "I wonder, in my soul, What you would ask me, that I should deny."


noun
Wonder  n.  
1.
That emotion which is excited by novelty, or the presentation to the sight or mind of something new, unusual, strange, great, extraordinary, or not well understood; surprise; astonishment; admiration; amazement. "They were filled with wonder and amazement at that which had happened unto him." "Wonder is the effect of novelty upon ignorance." Note: Wonder expresses less than astonishment, and much less than amazement. It differs from admiration, as now used, in not being necessarily accompanied with love, esteem, or approbation.
2.
A cause of wonder; that which excites surprise; a strange thing; a prodigy; a miracle. " Babylon, the wonder of all tongues." "To try things oft, and never to give over, doth wonders." "I am as a wonder unto many."
Seven wonders of the world. See in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction.


adjective
Wonder  adj.  Wonderful. (Obs.) "After that he said a wonder thing."


adverb
Wonder  adv.  Wonderfully. (Obs.)





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Wonder" Quotes from Famous Books



... with pleasure that it was to the Virginian side of the Potomac that the "felicity hunters" of Washington resorted to see this fearful wonder, for I never saw a spot where I should less have liked the annoying "how d'ye," of a casual rencontre. One could not even give or receive the exciting "is it not charming," which Rousseau talks of, for if it were uttered, it could not be heard, or, if heard, would fall ...
— Domestic Manners of the Americans • Fanny Trollope
... that my impassiveness gave me over those three rascals was very evident when they slouched in, for they were all trembling and twitching with nervous excitement. And no wonder. To a man who values his life above everything on earth, it is a serious matter to walk into the very shadow of the gallows. As soon as they were inside, one of them, who looked like a Polish Jew, ...
— The Uttermost Farthing - A Savant's Vendetta • R. Austin Freeman
... lay gasping for breath. The blood was flowing from a wound on his cheek, and it was a wonder that ...
— The Boy Land Boomer - Dick Arbuckle's Adventures in Oklahoma • Ralph Bonehill
... the most ordinary, complacent, quite undisturbed tone, "I was just beginning to wonder where you'd got to. We've been back about five minutes, Sissie and I, and Sissie's gone to bed. I really don't believe ...
— Mr. Prohack • E. Arnold Bennett
... of her proud and perfect upper lip, Laurie felt his heart-beats quicken. She was a wonder, this girl; and with his delight in her beauty and her pride came another feeling, almost as new as his humility—an overwhelming sympathy for and a ...
— The Girl in the Mirror • Elizabeth Garver Jordan


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