1 [C] an act or event that does not follow the laws of nature and is believed to be caused by God
2 [sing.] (informal) a lucky thing that happens that you did not expect or think was possible:
an economic miracle * It's a miracle (that) nobody was killed in the crash. * It would take a miracle to make this business profitable. * a miracle cure / drug
3 [C] ~ of sth a very good example or product of sth:
The car is a miracle of engineering.
IDIOMS
work / perform miracles to achieve very good results:
Her exercise programme has worked miracles for her.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for miracle is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is miracle a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, miracle is tagged as noun.
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