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# marvelous

adjective (marvelous, more marvelous, most marvelous)

«marvelous» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

Marvelous means wonderful, very surprising or very good. (US spelling of marvellous) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/marvelous/#m1)

### In the lessons

a word for a magical or wonderful place or feast in a tale

### Examples

- What a wonderful, beautiful, marvelous country! [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/marvelous/#x1)
- Who has ever heard of such a marvelous place? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/marvelous/#x2)
- He had never sat down to such a marvelous feast. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/marvelous/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths

## In Jewish tradition

Here it describes the three "mother" letters as a great and wonderful mystery. It is the American spelling of marvellous.

**Interpretation.** Tradition reads the word as hinting at something divine, beyond human power. The three mothers (Aleph, Mem, Shin) are taken as the root of Air, Water and Fire.

### Examples

- These three mothers enclose a mighty mystery, most occult and most marvelous, sealed as with six rings, and from them proceed primeval Fire, Water, and Air; these are subsequently differentiated into male and female. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/marvelous/#x1)
- It tends to be used of things that are marvelous, miraculous, or otherwise supernatural and extraordinary, i.e. that which defies the human ability to do or understand and must therefore be divine, e.g. \[Deuteronomy 28:59\], \[Psalm 118:23\], \[Psalm 139:6\]. (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/marvelous/#x2)

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «marvelous» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/marvelous/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«marvelous» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/marvelous.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «marvelous» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/marvelous/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«marvelous» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/marvelous.html) on Mova free.