Noun: Wunderkammer
| Singular | Wunderkammer |
| Plural | Wunderkammers; Wunderkammern |
Sample Sentences
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Despite the frequent bric-à-brac dimension to such collections, these theatres of nature invited an appreciation of nature rather different from the Renaissance Wunderkammer which had preceded them. [2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 207:]
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Tucked into a small storefront on Venice Boulevard, the museum has been called a modern-day wunderkammer and is the subject of a 1995 book, Mr. Wilsons Cabinet of Wonders (Pantheon), by Lawrence Weschler. [2007 November 4, Carol Kino, “Boldly, Where No Dog Had Gone Before”, in The New York Times:]
Nouns inflected like Wunderkammer
Sacher-torte,
Wunderkammer,
blitz torte,
Klokan,
linzer torte,
capelle,
pickelhaube,
turnhalle,
druse,
freke,
torte,
schul,
shmoo,
sachertorte,
Aufgabe,
sacher torte,
auslese,
kapelle,
linzertorte,
manbote, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From German Wunderkammer (literally “room of wonders”). See: German Nouns '
Wunderkammer'.