Meaning of "wonder" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD WONDER

Old English wundor; related to Old Saxon wundar, Old Norse undr, German Wunder.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF WONDER

wonder  [ˈwʌndə]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF WONDER

Wonder is a verb and can also act as a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb wonder in English.

WHAT DOES WONDER MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Wonder

Wonder most commonly refers to: ▪ Wonder, an emotion comparable to surprise that people feel when perceiving something rare or unexpected Wonder may also refer to...

Definition of wonder in the English dictionary

The first definition of wonder in the dictionary is the feeling excited by something strange; a mixture of surprise, curiosity, and sometimes awe. Other definition of wonder is something that causes such a feeling, such as a miracle. Wonder is also exciting wonder by virtue of spectacular results achieved, feats performed, etc.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO WONDER

PRESENT

Present

I wonder

you wonder

he/she/it wonders

we wonder

you wonder

they wonder

Present continuous

I am wondering

you are wondering

he/she/it is wondering

we are wondering

you are wondering

they are wondering

Present perfect

I have wondered

you have wondered

he/she/it has wondered

we have wondered

you have wondered

they have wondered

Present perfect continuous

I have been wondering

you have been wondering

he/she/it has been wondering

we have been wondering

you have been wondering

they have been wondering

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I wondered

you wondered

he/she/it wondered

we wondered

you wondered

they wondered

Past continuous

I was wondering

you were wondering

he/she/it was wondering

we were wondering

you were wondering

they were wondering

Past perfect

I had wondered

you had wondered

he/she/it had wondered

we had wondered

you had wondered

they had wondered

Past perfect continuous

I had been wondering

you had been wondering

he/she/it had been wondering

we had been wondering

you had been wondering

they had been wondering

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will wonder

you will wonder

he/she/it will wonder

we will wonder

you will wonder

they will wonder

Future continuous

I will be wondering

you will be wondering

he/she/it will be wondering

we will be wondering

you will be wondering

they will be wondering

Future perfect

I will have wondered

you will have wondered

he/she/it will have wondered

we will have wondered

you will have wondered

they will have wondered

Future perfect continuous

I will have been wondering

you will have been wondering

he/she/it will have been wondering

we will have been wondering

you will have been wondering

they will have been wondering

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would wonder

you would wonder

he/she/it would wonder

we would wonder

you would wonder

they would wonder

Conditional continuous

I would be wondering

you would be wondering

he/she/it would be wondering

we would be wondering

you would be wondering

they would be wondering

Conditional perfect

I would have wonder

you would have wonder

he/she/it would have wonder

we would have wonder

you would have wonder

they would have wonder

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been wondering

you would have been wondering

he/she/it would have been wondering

we would have been wondering

you would have been wondering

they would have been wondering

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you wonder
we let´s wonder
you wonder

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to wonder

Past participle

wondered

Present Participle

wondering

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

SYNONYMS OF «WONDER»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «wonder» and belong to the same grammatical category.

synonyms of wonder

admiration · amazement · astonishment · awe · bewilderment · boggle · conjecture · curiosity · doubt · fascination · gape · gawk · inquire · marvel · meditate · miracle · nonpareil · phenomenon · ponder · portent · prodigy · puzzle · query · question · rarity · sight · spectacle · speculate · stare · stupefaction · surprise · think · wonderment

TRANSLATION OF WONDER

Find out the translation of wonder to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of wonder from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «wonder» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 想知道
• Translator English - Spanish: preguntarse
• English: wonder
• Translator English - Hindi: आश्चर्य
• Translator English - Arabic: يَتَسَاءَلُ
• Translator English - Russian: удивляться
• Translator English - Portuguese: querer saber
• Translator English - Bengali: আশ্চর্য
• Translator English - French: se demander
• Translator English - Malay: Tertanya-tanya
• Translator English - German: fragen (sich)
• Translator English - Japanese: 怪しむ
• Translator English - Korean: 기이하게 여기다
• Translator English - Javanese: Wonder
• Translator English - Vietnamese: tự hỏi
• Translator English - Tamil: ஆச்சரியமாக
• Translator English - Marathi: आश्चर्य
• Translator English - Turkish: merak etmek
• Translator English - Italian: stupirsi
• Translator English - Polish: zastanowić (się)
• Translator English - Ukrainian: цікавитися
• Translator English - Romanian: a se întreba
• Translator English - Greek: διερωτώμαι
• Translator English - Afrikaans: wonder
• Translator English - Swedish: undra
• Translator English - Norwegian: undre

10 QUOTES WITH «WONDER»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word wonder.

1

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

If I were not African, I wonder whether it would be clear to me that Africa is a place where the people do not need limp gifts of fish but sturdy fishing rods and fair access to the pond. I wonder whether I would realize that while African nations have a failure of leadership, they also have dynamic people with agency and voices.

2

Darren Aronofsky

There's always been a lot of pressure and tension on the line. If 'Pi' didn't work out, I have no idea what my career would be. I don't think I would have gotten another shot at it. If 'Requiem for a Dream' didn't work out, they would have called me a 'one-hit wonder with a sophomore slump'.

3

Russell Baker

Newspaper people, once celebrated as founts of ribald humor and uncouth fun, have of late lost all their gaiety, and small wonder.

4

Beck

Especially in music, you wonder, Okay, should I still be doing this? Like, are you overstaying your welcome at the party? But I don't know.

5

Michael Beck

I often wonder why people remake movies. Is there just a lack of imagination out there that they can't come up with an original idea?

6

Polly Bergen

It suddenly struck me - I'm 70 years old. I wonder if I could possibly end my life the way I started it: doing the most joyful thing I ever did, which is to sing.

7

Acker Bilk

I look at my clarinet sometimes and I think, I wonder what's going to come out of there tonight? You never know.

8

John Boyne

I can remember being eight, and I like writing about that age of innocence when children still have a sense of wonder.

9

David Cameron

People feel that the EU is heading in a direction that they never signed up to. They resent the interference in our national life by what they see as unnecessary rules and regulation. And they wonder what the point of it all is. Put simply, many ask 'why can't we just have what we voted to join - a common market?'

10

Jasper Carrott

Having signed a few autographs in my time, I always wonder what the heck people do with them.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WONDER»

Discover the use of wonder in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to wonder and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Wonder

Born with a facial deformity that initially prevented his attendance at public school, Auggie Pullman enters the fifth grade at Beecher Prep and struggles with the dynamics of being both new and different, in a sparsely written tale about ...

R. J. Palacio, 2012

Wonder

"Wonder is the best kids' book of the year," said Emily Bazelon, senior editor at Slate.com and author of Sticks and Stones: Defeating the Culture of Bullying and Rediscovering the Power of Character and Empathy.

R. J. Palacio, 2012

Wonder

Narrated by Auggie and the people around him whose lives he touches, Wonder is a frank, funny, astonishingly moving debut to be read in one sitting, pass on to others, and remember long after the final page.

R. J. Palacio, 2013

State of Wonder

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORANGE PRIZE FOR FICTION 2012 There were people on the banks of the river.

Ann Patchett, 2012

Wonder Woman: The Complete History

A brightly illustrated retrospective of the sixty-year career of the popular female superhero describes the life and times of Wonder Woman and her battles against evil, complemented by an array of archival comic book art, memorabilia, and ...

Les Daniels, 2004

The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered ...

Three lives dominate the book: William Herschel, his sister Caroline, and Humphry Davy.

Richard Holmes, 2010

Wonder, the Rainbow, and the Aesthetics of Rare Experiences

This is a book about the aesthetics of wonder, about wonder as it figures in our relation to the visual world and to rare or new experiences.

Philip Fisher, 1998

A Thousand Days of Wonder: A Scientist's Chronicle of His ...

Written with a father's tenderness and a novelist's empathy and style, this unique book taps into a parent's wonder at the processes of psychological development.

Charles Fernyhough, 2009

A Place for Wonder: Reading and Writing Nonfiction in the ...

In A Place for Wonder, Georgia Heard and Jennifer McDonough discuss how to create "a landscape of wonder," a primary classroom where curiosity, creativity, and exploration are encouraged.

Georgia Heard, Jennifer McDonough, 2009

Wonder Women: Feminisms and Superheroes

This book will delight and provoke anyone interested in the history of feminism or the importance of comics in contemporary life.

Lillian S. Robinson, 2004

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WONDER»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term wonder is used in the context of the following news items.

Chris Pine is Wonder Woman's Boyfriend Steve Trevor

With the arrival of 2017's stand-alone Wonder Woman movie, we finally get to see what a female-skewed superhero movie looks like in this modern, comic ... «Vanity Fair, Jul 15»

A Bruce Springsteen surprise at the Wonder Bar

More than two hours of rock 'n' roll from Bruce Springsteen, Joe Grushecky, Eddie Manion and Grushecky's Houserockers in a packed and steamy Wonder Bar ... «Asbury Park Press, Jul 15»

White House Grilled Over Private Party With Prince, Stevie Wonder

Stevie Wonder and Prince had a jam session at the White House over the weekend, but the public and the press weren't invited. The event was not included on ... «TIME, Jun 15»

From 'Wonder Woman' Love Interest to Jilted Ex: A Guide to Steve …

Chris Pine is in talks to play Steve Trevor in Warner Bros' Wonder Woman, news that likely warms the cockles of the hearts of longterm Wonder Woman fans and ... «Hollywood Reporter, May 15»

'Wonder Woman' Movie Finds a New Director (Exclusive)

Just days after losing a director for Wonder Woman, Warners has quickly found another filmmaker to pick up the reins on the high-profile project. Patty Jenkins ... «Hollywood Reporter, Apr 15»

Why is it so hard to make a 'Wonder Woman' movie?

Like seriously, is there a Wonder Woman curse? Lots of film and TV projects have their fair share of problematic productions, but when it comes to Diana Prince, ... «USA TODAY, Apr 15»

Beyonce Delivers Powerhouse Stevie Wonder Tribute Medley

The Grammy-sponsored Stevie Wonder tribute Songs in the Key of Life – An All-Star Salute aired Monday night on CBS, nearly a week after the star-studded ... «RollingStone.com, Feb 15»

Beyonce, Ed Sheeran toast Stevie Wonder at all-star Grammy tribute

Who to get when you need someone to play one of Stevie Wonder's “funkiest and most political” songs? The Band Perry, of course. That was the nutty reasoning ... «Los Angeles Times, Feb 15»

Chris Martin, Ed Sheeran, Willie Nelson Join Stevie Wonder Tribute …

Last month, it was revealed that the Grammys would honor Wonder with a celebration similar to the network's 2014 star-studded music special The Beatles: The ... «RollingStone.com, Jan 15»

Stevie Wonder, 64, Welcomes Baby No. 9—Get the Details!

In November, Wonder was at the center of baby rumors after a Page Six reported that the "Superstition" singer is expecting triplets with Bracy, bringing his ... «E! Online, Dec 14»