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Seven Wonders of the World   /sˈɛvən wˈəndərz əv ðə wərld/   Listen
Seven Wonders of the World

noun
1.
Impressive monuments created in the ancient world that were regarded with awe.  Synonym: Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.






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"Seven wonders of the world" Quotes from Famous Books



... her,' said Steerforth, 'for she is one of the seven wonders of the world. When Miss ...
— David Copperfield • Charles Dickens

... and sister-wife of Mauso'lus. Artemisia was queen of Caria, and at the death of her fraternal husband raised a monument to his memory (called a mausole'um), which was one of the "Seven Wonders of the World." It was built by four different architects: Scopas, Timotheus, ...
— Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol 1 - A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook • The Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D.

... the seven wonders of the world I could cite with certainty only one, the Colossus of Rhodes. I was doubtful about Mount Vesuvius. I remembered not a single one of the seven deadly sins, and, at first, could place only two of the ten commandments—the ones ...
— The Patient Observer - And His Friends • Simeon Strunsky

... temple of Diana at Ephesus; this building was accounted one of the Seven Wonders of the World. ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 2 • Various

... Grecian sculpture, while sphinxes and obelisks gave a suggestion of Oriental strangeness. As one looked seaward his eye beheld over the blue water the snow-white rocks of the sheltering island, Pharos, on which was reared a lighthouse four hundred feet in height and justly numbered among the seven wonders of the world. Altogether, Alexandria was a city of wealth, of beauty, of stirring life, of excitement, and of pleasure. Ferrero has aptly likened it to Paris—not so much the Paris of to-day as the Paris of forty years ago, when ...
— Famous Affinities of History, Vol 1-4, Complete - The Romance of Devotion • Lyndon Orr



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