MIRACLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does miracle mean? 

• MIRACLE (noun)
  The noun MIRACLE has 2 senses:

1. any amazing or wonderful occurrence

2. a marvellous event manifesting a supernatural act of a divine agent

  Familiarity information: MIRACLE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MIRACLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any amazing or wonderful occurrence

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("miracle" is a kind of...):

happening; natural event; occurrence; occurrent (an event that happens)

Derivation:

miraculous (being or having the character of a miracle)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A marvellous event manifesting a supernatural act of a divine agent

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("miracle" is a kind of...):

event (something that happens at a given place and time)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "miracle"):

Assumption ((Christianity) the taking up of the body and soul of the Virgin Mary when her earthly life had ended)

Transfiguration; Transfiguration of Jesus ((New Testament) the sudden emanation of radiance from the person of Jesus)

Instance hyponyms:

Ascension; Ascension of Christ ((New Testament) the rising of the body of Jesus into heaven on the 40th day after his Resurrection)

Christ's Resurrection; Resurrection; Resurrection of Christ ((New Testament) the rising of Christ on the third day after the Crucifixion)

Derivation:

miraculous (peculiarly fortunate or appropriate; as if by divine intervention)

 Context examples 

Jupiter is associated with financial luck, happiness, and even miracles.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

It has since been considered almost a miracle that my aunt didn't shake him, and shake what he had to say, out of him.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Some miracle might have produced it, yet the stages of the discovery were distinct and probable.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

They arrived by course of miracle, by winning a thousand-to-one wager against them.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

It is a miracle that you have survived.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

This, then, is the last time, short of a miracle, that Henry Jekyll can think his own thoughts or see his own face (now how sadly altered!) in the glass.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Walt and Madge stared at each other. The miracle had happened. Wolf had barked.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Servants are come to such a pass, my dear, in Portsmouth, that it is quite a miracle if one keeps them more than half a year.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

“All things are possible to God, but, certes, without a miracle, I should scarce expect to find the soul of Roger Clubfoot amongst the just.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Very likely some Mrs. Grundy will observe, "I don't believe it, boys will be boys, young men must sow their wild oats, and women must not expect miracles."

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)