Miracle

Noun

 * 1) A wonderful event occurring in the physical world attributed to supernatural powers.
 * 2) * Many religious beliefs are based on miracles.
 * 3) A fortunate outcome that prevails despite overwhelming odds against it
 * 4) * 1966 "A Great Document Made by Wisdom and Luck," Life, Vol. 61, No. 22 (25 Nov 1966), p13
 * Secondly, it was a miracle that a document hammered out with such difficulty, satisfying very few of its authors completely and satisfying some of them very little, would turn out to be the most successful political invention in history.
 * 1) * 1993 Hatch N. Gardner & Frank H. Winter, P-51 Mustang, Turner Publishing Company, p78
 * It was a miracle that I survived that ditching in the high waves because I had my seat belt and shoulder harness unbuckled in anticipation of bailing out.
 * 1) * 2003 Eric Lionel Jones, The European miracle: environments, economies, and geopolitics in the history of Europe and Asia, Cambridge University Press, p218
 * Seen in this light it was a miracle of economic history that Europe was able to undertake so much higher a proportion of its expansion overseas, and secure a massive injection of resources and big markets without a commensurate growth in her numbers.
 * 1) An awesome and exceptional example of something
 * 2) * 1847 Honoré de Balzac, Scenes from a Courtesan's Life, p323
 * The home of our kings, over which you tread as you pace the immense hall known as the Salle des Pas-Perdus, was a miracle of architecture.
 * 1) * 2008 Joseph R. Conlin, The American Past: A Survey of American History, Cengage Learning, p670
 * It was a miracle of engineering that made possible, with the cheap electricity the dam generated, another kind of miracle: the bizarre, superilluminated city of Las Vegas, Nevada.

Derived terms

 * miraculous
 * miraculousness
 * miraculously

Adjectives for Miracle
culinary; celestial; numerous (pi); unfathomable; perpetual; incomprehensible; fi¬nancial; inscrutable; established; blessed; midnight; infinite; recorded; tenderest; gracious; medieval; year-born.

Verbs for Miracle
accept—; accomplish—; achieve—; ascribe —to; behold—; confirm—; contradict—; credit—; deny—; display—; divine—; foretell—; gape at—; hail as—; marvel at—; prophesy—; render—; work—; —astounds; —baffles; —bewilders; —convinces; —inspires; —mystifies; —dumbfounds; —unfolds; —violates.

Thesaurus
Grand Guignol, Passion play, Tom show, amazement, antimasque, astonishing thing, astonishment, audience success, ballet, bomb, broadcast drama, burlesque show, charade, cliff hanger, closet drama, comedy drama, critical success, curiosity, daytime serial, dialogue, documentary drama, drama, dramalogue, dramatic play, dramatic series, duodrama, duologue, enchantment, epic theater, exception, experimental theater, extravaganza, failure, fantasy, ferlie, flop, gasser, gazingstock, giveaway, happening, hit, hit show, improvisational drama, legitimate drama, marvel, marvelment, masque, melodrama, minstrel show, miracle play, monodrama, monologue, morality, morality play, music drama, musical revue, mystery, mystery play, nonesuch, opera, pageant, panel show, pantomime, pastoral, pastoral drama, phenomenon, piece, play, playlet, portent, problem play, prodigy, psychodrama, quite a thing, quiz show, radio drama, rarity, review, revue, sensation, sensational play, serial, show, sight, sign, sitcom, situation comedy, sketch, skit, soap, soap opera, sociodrama, something else, spectacle, stage play, stage show, straight drama, stunner, success, suspense drama, tableau, tableau vivant, talk show, teleplay, television drama, television play, theater of cruelty, total theater, variety show, vaudeville, vaudeville show, vehicle, wonder, wonderful thing, wonderment, wonderwork, word-of-mouth success, work

Etymology
From miracle: <  miraculum: < miror: < mirus: < ,.

Translations

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 * Chinese: 奇迹 (qíjī)
 * Czech:, div
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 * Georgian: მირაკლი, სასწაული, საკვირველება
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 * Irish: míorúilt


 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 奇跡 (きせき, kiseki)
 * Korean: 기적 (gijeok)
 * Norwegian: mirakel, ,
 * Persian: (mo'jeze)
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 * Slovak: div
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 * Volapük: milag
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 * claimer
 * reclaim

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