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marvel | disney |

As a noun marvel

is that which causes wonder; a prodigy; a miracle.

As a verb marvel

is to become filled with wonderment or admiration; to be amazed at something.

As a proper noun disney is

of norman origin.

marvel

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • That which causes wonder; a prodigy; a miracle.
  • * Bible, Exodus xxxiv. 10
  • I will do marvels such as have not been done.
  • Wonder, astonishment.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
  • Use lessens marvel .

    Verb

  • To become filled with wonderment or admiration; to be amazed at something.
  • * Bible, 1 John iii. 13
  • Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you.
  • (obsolete) To marvel at.
  • (Wyclif)
  • (obsolete, transitive, used impersonally) To cause to marvel or be surprised.
  • * Richard the Redeless
  • But much now me marvelleth .

    disney

    English

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • of Norman origin.
  • Any of the theme parks and vacation resorts operated by .
  • * 1990 , Bill Sample (interviewee), Bill Berkowitz (author), Local Heroes , Lexington Books, ISBN 0669158305, page 261:
  • And they included children down the seashore, they included going to the mountains; our first Disney' child was not until 1978, no, ’77. I mean, when you say to somebody, “I’m going to give you a trip to ' Disney ,” or “I’m going to buy you a Cabbage Patch doll,” and we’re doing this for you for absolutely nothing, that’s a reward in itself.
  • * 2008 , Doug Stumpf, Confessions of a Wall Street Shoeshine Boy , HarperCollins, ISBN 0060889543, page 155:
  • if they found any phone number from the U.S., anything, they’d deport us right away because we came here on excursion with a whole bunch of people that was going to visit Disney'. That’s what everybody usually do: They say, We going to visit ' Disney , and we going to stay there for a week, and then we going to go back, but they end up staying.
  • * 2008 , Flay Scott, The Inheritance , page 3:
  • Angela asked if we could treat ourselves to a few days at Disney'. The week included a couple of days in ' Disney , Dad’s 70th birthday and then the long trip home.
  • * 2009 , Cleo Stinyard III, Sex, Love, & Consequences , ISBN 1440497664, page 213:
  • I had decided to take them, my niece, and three nephews to Disney' in Orlando, FL. I was going to try and make history. I was going to make an attempt at escorting more than four Dredd kids to ' Disney at once and live to tell about it.

    Derived terms

    * Disneyan * Disneyana * Disneyesque * disneyfy * Disneyland * Disneyworld

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