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- 1 Taking much space; large.
"“[…] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes like // Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer, / With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer.[…]”"
- 2 Taking much space; large.; Much, more than usual.
"great worry"
- 3 Taking much space; large.; Intensifying a word or expression, used in mild oaths. British, informal
"a dirty great smack in the face"
- 4 Very good; excellent; wonderful; fantastic. informal
"Dinner was great."
- 5 Important, consequential.
"a great dilemma"
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- 6 Involving more generations than the qualified word implies — as many extra generations as repetitions of the word great (from 1510s).
"great-grandfather, great-great-grandfather, great-great-great-grandfather"
- 7 Pregnant; large with young; full of. obsolete, postpositional
"great with child"
- 8 Intimate; familiar. obsolete
"those that are so great with him"
- 9 Arising from or possessing idealism; admirable; commanding; illustrious; eminent.
"a great deed"
- 10 Impressive or striking.
"a great show of wealth"
- 11 Much in use; favoured.
"Poetry was a great convention of the Romantic era."
- 12 Of much talent or achievements.
"a great hero, scholar, genius, philosopher, writer, etc."
- 13 Doing or exemplifying (a characteristic or pursuit) on a large scale; active or enthusiastic.
"What a great buffoon!"
- 1 in an advanced stage of pregnancy wordnet
- 2 excellent wordnet
- 3 of major significance or importance wordnet
- 4 relatively large in size or number or extent; larger than others of its kind wordnet
- 5 uppercase wordnet
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- 6 remarkable or out of the ordinary in degree or magnitude or effect wordnet
- 1 Very well (in a very satisfactory manner). informal, not-comparable
"Those mechanical colored pencils work great because they don’t have to be sharpened."
- 1 Expression of gladness and content about something.
"Great! Thanks for the wonderful work."
- 2 A sarcastic inversion thereof.
"Oh, great! I just dumped all 500 sheets of the manuscript all over and now I have to put them back in order."
- 1 A person of major significance, accomplishment or acclaim.
"Newton and Einstein are two of the greats of the history of science."
- 2 a person who has achieved distinction and honor in some field wordnet
- 3 The main division in a pipe organ, usually the loudest division.
- 4 An instance of the word "great" signifying an additional generation in phrases expressing family relationships.
"My three-greats grandmother."
Etymology
From Middle English greet (“great, large”), from Old English grēat (“big, thick, coarse, massive”), from Proto-West Germanic *graut, from Proto-Germanic *grautaz (“big in size, coarse, coarse grained”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrewd-, *gʰer- (“to rub, grind, remove”). Cognates Cognate with Scots graat, great, greet (“great”), Yola graat (“great”), North Frisian grat, groot, grot, grut, gurt (“big, great, large”), Saterland Frisian groot (“big, large”), West Frisian grut (“big, great, large”), Alemannic German groß, gruuss (“very large”), Central Franconian jruß (“big, great, large”), Cimbrian gròas, groaz (“big, great, large”), Dutch and German Low German groot (“big, great, large”), German gross, groß (“big, large”), Luxembourgish grouss (“big, great, large”), Mòcheno groas (“big, great, large”), Vilamovian grus, grūs (“big, great, large”), Yiddish גרויס (groys, “big, large”); also Latin grandis (“big, great, large”). Related to grit. Doublet of gross. The modern pronunciation shows an irregular change of Early Modern English /ɛː/ to /eɪ/ in the standard language; contrast this with the development of other words such as beat and heat.
From Middle English greet (“great, large”), from Old English grēat (“big, thick, coarse, massive”), from Proto-West Germanic *graut, from Proto-Germanic *grautaz (“big in size, coarse, coarse grained”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrewd-, *gʰer- (“to rub, grind, remove”). Cognates Cognate with Scots graat, great, greet (“great”), Yola graat (“great”), North Frisian grat, groot, grot, grut, gurt (“big, great, large”), Saterland Frisian groot (“big, large”), West Frisian grut (“big, great, large”), Alemannic German groß, gruuss (“very large”), Central Franconian jruß (“big, great, large”), Cimbrian gròas, groaz (“big, great, large”), Dutch and German Low German groot (“big, great, large”), German gross, groß (“big, large”), Luxembourgish grouss (“big, great, large”), Mòcheno groas (“big, great, large”), Vilamovian grus, grūs (“big, great, large”), Yiddish גרויס (groys, “big, large”); also Latin grandis (“big, great, large”). Related to grit. Doublet of gross. The modern pronunciation shows an irregular change of Early Modern English /ɛː/ to /eɪ/ in the standard language; contrast this with the development of other words such as beat and heat.
From Middle English greet (“great, large”), from Old English grēat (“big, thick, coarse, massive”), from Proto-West Germanic *graut, from Proto-Germanic *grautaz (“big in size, coarse, coarse grained”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrewd-, *gʰer- (“to rub, grind, remove”). Cognates Cognate with Scots graat, great, greet (“great”), Yola graat (“great”), North Frisian grat, groot, grot, grut, gurt (“big, great, large”), Saterland Frisian groot (“big, large”), West Frisian grut (“big, great, large”), Alemannic German groß, gruuss (“very large”), Central Franconian jruß (“big, great, large”), Cimbrian gròas, groaz (“big, great, large”), Dutch and German Low German groot (“big, great, large”), German gross, groß (“big, large”), Luxembourgish grouss (“big, great, large”), Mòcheno groas (“big, great, large”), Vilamovian grus, grūs (“big, great, large”), Yiddish גרויס (groys, “big, large”); also Latin grandis (“big, great, large”). Related to grit. Doublet of gross. The modern pronunciation shows an irregular change of Early Modern English /ɛː/ to /eɪ/ in the standard language; contrast this with the development of other words such as beat and heat.
From Middle English greet (“great, large”), from Old English grēat (“big, thick, coarse, massive”), from Proto-West Germanic *graut, from Proto-Germanic *grautaz (“big in size, coarse, coarse grained”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrewd-, *gʰer- (“to rub, grind, remove”). Cognates Cognate with Scots graat, great, greet (“great”), Yola graat (“great”), North Frisian grat, groot, grot, grut, gurt (“big, great, large”), Saterland Frisian groot (“big, large”), West Frisian grut (“big, great, large”), Alemannic German groß, gruuss (“very large”), Central Franconian jruß (“big, great, large”), Cimbrian gròas, groaz (“big, great, large”), Dutch and German Low German groot (“big, great, large”), German gross, groß (“big, large”), Luxembourgish grouss (“big, great, large”), Mòcheno groas (“big, great, large”), Vilamovian grus, grūs (“big, great, large”), Yiddish גרויס (groys, “big, large”); also Latin grandis (“big, great, large”). Related to grit. Doublet of gross. The modern pronunciation shows an irregular change of Early Modern English /ɛː/ to /eɪ/ in the standard language; contrast this with the development of other words such as beat and heat.
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