wonderwork

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noun

A wonderful work or act

OriginMiddle English wonderworc ← Old English wundorweorc →
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Meanings

nounwonderwork (plural wonderworks)

plural wonderworks · alternative wonder-work

  1. A wonderful work or act
  2. A miracle.

    Unheeded, searching through the crowd to find / Fit speculation; such as in strange land / He found in wonder-works of God and Nature's hand.

    1816, Lord Byron, “Canto III”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. Canto the Third, London: […] [F]or John Murray, […], →OCLC, stanza X

Origin

  1. Old Englishwundorweorc
  2. Middle Englishwonderworc
  3. Englishwonderwork

From Middle English wonderworc, from Old English wundorweorc, wundorġeweorc (“a wondrous work, miracle”), equivalent to wonder + work. Compare Dutch wonderwerk, German Wunderwerk.

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APA

wonderwork. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wonderwork

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“wonderwork.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wonderwork. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “wonderwork,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wonderwork.

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