astonishment
English
Noun
astonishment (countable and uncountable, plural astonishments)
- amazement, great surprise
- An amazing thing or phenomenon.
- 1964, Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory:
- Everything he had seen so far — the great chocolate river, the waterfall, the huge sucking pipes, the candy meadows, the Oompa-Loompas, the beautiful pink boat, and most of all, Mr. Willy Wonka himself — had been so astonishing that he began to wonder whether there could possibly be any more astonishments left.
- 1964, Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory:
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Translations
amazement, great surprise
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amazing thing
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