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  1. adjective Very large in size.
  2. adjective Larger in size than others of the same kind.
  3. adjective Large in quantity or number: A great throng awaited us. See Synonyms at large.
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  • Your crime books will have told you that under those conditions the gardens of the great are as an open book to us sleuths. —  A Man Lay Dead - Ngaio Marsh - Alleyn 01: 1934
  • Still, royalty and nobility turned out in force, and all the greatest of the great were there. —  Queen Victoria, Her Girlhood And Womanhood
  • But, what has kept America great is her ability to innovate and grow. —  The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
  • The one which made her great was the essay, and the theme she made her own was pain
  • The I Ching might have put it this way: the hostility of the great is the impoverishment of the weak. —  Dissident Voice
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English grete, from Old English grēat, thick, coarse.

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  1. from Middle English gret, grete, greet, earlier great, from Anglo-Saxon greát = Old Saxon grōt = OFries. grāt = Dutch groot (later English groat) = Middle Low German grōt, Low German groot = Old High German grōz, Middle High German grōz, German gross, great, large. Not connected with L. grandis, great, grand, nor with Middle Latin grossus, French gros, etc., great, gross: see grand and gross.
  2. from Middle English greten, greeten, from Anglo-Saxon greátian, become great (= Middle Low German groten, make great, = Old High German grōzēn, Middle High German grōzen, grow great), from greát, great: see great, adjective
 

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