wonder

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun The emotion aroused by something awe-inspiring, astounding, or surprising.
• noun The quality that arouses such emotion.
• noun One that arouses awe, astonishment, surprise, or admiration; a marvel.
• noun A monumental human creation regarded with awe, especially one of seven monuments of the ancient world that appeared on various lists of late antiquity.
• noun An extraordinary or remarkable act or achievement.
• noun An event inexplicable by the laws of nature; a miracle.
• intransitive verb To have a feeling of awe, astonishment, surprise, or admiration.
• intransitive verb To be filled with curiosity or doubt.
• intransitive verb To feel curiosity or be in doubt about.
• adjective Remarkable or extraordinary, especially in being beneficial.
• idiom (do wonders) To have a beneficial effect.
• idiom (for a wonder) As a cause for surprise; surprisingly.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To be affected with wonder or surprise; marvel; be amazed: formerly with a reflexive dative.
• To look with or feel admiration.
• To entertain some doubt or curiosity in reference to some matter; speculate expectantly; be in a state of expectation mingled with doubt and slight anxiety or wistfulness: as, I wonder whether we shall reach the place in time: hence, I wonder is often equivalent to ‘I should like to know.’
• To be curious about; wish to know; speculate in regard to: as, I wonder where John has gone.
• To surprise; amaze.
• Wonderful.
• noun A strange tiling; a cause of surprise, astonishment, or admiration; in a restricted sense, a miracle; a marvel, prodigy, or portent.
• noun That emotion which is excited by novelty, or the presentation to the sight or mind of something new, unusual, strange, great, extraordinary, not well understood, or that arrests the attention by its novelty, grandeur, or inexplicitbleness.
• noun A cruller.
• noun =Syn.1. Sign, marvel, phenomenon, spectacle, rarity.
• noun Surprise, bewilderment. See def. 2.
• Wonderfully; exceedingly; very.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• adjective obsolete Wonderful.
• intransitive verb To be affected with surprise or admiration; to be struck with astonishment; to be amazed; to marvel.
• intransitive verb To feel doubt and curiosity; to wait with uncertain expectation; to query in the mind.
• adverb obsolete Wonderfully.
• noun That emotion which is excited by novelty, or the presentation to the sight or mind of something new, unusual, strange, great, extraordinary, or not well understood; surprise; astonishment; admiration; amazement.
• noun A cause of wonder; that which excites surprise; a strange thing; a prodigy; a miracle.
• noun See in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun UK, informal A mental pondering, a thought.
• verb To ponder about something.
• noun Something that causes amazement or awe, a marvel.
• noun Something astonishing and seemingly inexplicable.
• noun Someone very talented at something, a genius.
• noun The sense or emotion which can be inspired by something curious or unknown.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun the feeling aroused by something strange and surprising
• verb be amazed at
• verb place in doubt or express doubtful speculation
• verb have a wish or desire to know something
• noun a state in which you want to learn more about something
• noun something that causes feelings of wonder