miracle
/ˈmɪɹ.ə.kəl/US/ˈmiɹ.ə.kəl/
miracle noun: an event that appears inexplicable by the laws of nature and so is held to be supernatural in origin.
Noun
miracle (plural miracles)
- An event that appears inexplicable by the laws of nature and so is held to be supernatural in origin.
- Many religious beliefs are based on miracles.
- An example of a miracle associated with Muhammad is the splitting of the moon.
- A fortunate outcome that prevails despite overwhelming odds against it.
- 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.1966 November 25, “A Great Document Made by Wisdom and Luck”, in Life, volume 61, number 22, page 13
- 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.1993, Hatch N. Gardner, Frank H. Winter, P-51 Mustang, Turner Publishing Company, page 78
- An awesome and exceptional example of something.
- economic miracle
- engineering miracle
Verb
miracle (third-person singular simple present miracles, present participle miracling, simple past and past participle miracled)
- To affect by a miracle; to work a miracle upon.
- When a patient declares that he has been "miracled," the other pilgrims are apt to rush to him (or her) and ask details; this is not permitted; the miracled invalid is borne or carted away to the Bureau of Medical Certification […]1925, The Medical Critic and Guide, volume 25, page 103
- Deleuze and Guattari are right in miracling fleas into the bestiary, but it is already rich enough to do without them.1998, Gary Genosko, Undisciplined Theory, page 117
Proper noun capitalized: Miracle
Miracle
- A female given name.
- A surname.
miracle meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
miracle in Hindi
- wonderful event attributed to supernatural powers
- चमत्कार camatkār, कौतुक kautuk, कमाल kamāl
miracle in Tamil
- an awesome and exceptional example of something
- அற்புதம் aṟputam
miracle in Marathi
- miracle, wonder, marvel
- चमत्कार camatkār
miracle in Urdu
- wonderful event attributed to supernatural powers
- مُعْجِزَہ mu'jiza
More languagesFewer languages
- miracle in Bengali
- আশ্চর্য aścorjo
- miracle in Telugu
- చమత్కారము camatkāramu
- miracle in Malayalam
- അത്ഭുതം atbhutaṁ, അദ്ഭുതസംഭവം adbhutasambhavaṁ
- miracle in Kannada
- ಪವಾಡ pavāḍa
- miracle in Punjabi
- معجزہ muʻjazah
- miracle in Gujarati
- ચમત્કાર camatkār
- miracle in Odia
- ଚମତ୍କାର, ଅଲୌକିକ ଘଟଣା
- miracle in Sanskrit
- प्रातिहार्य prātihārya
- miracle in Sinhala
- පුදුමය pudumaya
- miracle in Nepali
- चमत्कार camatkār
- miracle in Pashto
- معجزه mo'jeza
- miracle in Tagalog
- milagro, himala
- miracle in Arabic
- مُعْجِزَة muʕjiza, أُعْجُوبَة ʔuʕjūba
- miracle in Malay
- keajaiban, mukjizat, keheranan
- miracle in Indonesian
- mukjizat, keajaiban
- miracle in Thai
- ปาฏิหาริย์ bpaa-dtì-hǎan
- miracle in Vietnamese
- phép lạ, điều kỳ diệu, kỳ tích, phép mầu
- miracle in Myanmar
- ပြာဋိဟာ prati.ha
- Sindhi
- ڪرامت krāmt, معجزو mʻjzo, اسرار āsrār
- Dzongkha
- ཆོ་འཕྲུལ cho 'phrul, རྫུ་འཕྲུལ rdzu 'phrul
Examples of miracle in a sentence
- miracle of engineering
- 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.1847, Honoré de Balzac, Scenes from a Courtesan's Life, page 323:
- 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.2008, Joseph R. Conlin, The American Past: A Survey of American History, Cengage Learning, page 670:
- They think I've miracled the dogs, as the Eucharist miracled my mother.2001, Susann Cokal, Mirabilis, page 33:
Forms of miracle
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | miracles |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | miracles |
| present participle | miracling |
| past participle | miracled |
| past | miracled |
Origin of miracle
From Middle English miracle, from Old French miracle, from Latin mīrāculum (“object of wonder”), from mīror (“to wonder at”), from mīrus (“wonderful”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meyh₂- (“to smile, to be astonished”). Doublet of milagro and miraculum. Partially displaced native wonder, from Old English wundor (“miracle, wonder”).
Words formed from miracle
Phrases with miracle
Questions about miracle
- What does miracle mean?
- Miracle means an event that appears inexplicable by the laws of nature and so is held to be supernatural in origin.
- What is miracle in Hindi?
- Miracle in Hindi is चमत्कार (camatkār), कौतुक (kautuk), कमाल (kamāl). See Miracle meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use miracle in a sentence?
- miracle of engineering
- What part of speech is miracle?
- Miracle can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce miracle?
- Miracle is pronounced /ˈmɪɹ.ə.kəl/.
- What is the plural of miracle?
- The plural of miracle is miracles.
Words near miracle in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: miracle (page history and authors); Miracle (page history and authors); चमत्कार (Marathi) (page history and authors); చమత్కారము (Telugu) (page history and authors); ಪವಾಡ (Kannada) (page history and authors); معجزہ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); ચમત્કાર (Gujarati) (page history and authors); miracle (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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