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It was a vast square building--vast, that is, for Woodhouse--standing on the main street and high-road of the small but growing town.

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  1. adjective Very great in size, number, amount, or quantity.
  2. adjective Very great in area or extent; immense.
  3. adjective Very great in degree or intensity. See Synonyms at enormous.

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  • Except for a vast, ancient wistaria which climbed all over the front of the south wing, it was without adornment. —  The Murder of Busy Lizzie - Gladys Mitchell - Bradley 46: 1973
  • The Japs had in a few months pushed out over a vast area, capturing Malaya, the Dutch East Indies, Burma, Borneo, New Britain and other islands. —  My Fifteen Years with General MacArthur.htm
  • The settlement lay on the banks of the upper Catawba, near the junction of that stream with Waxhaw Creek; and as it occupied a fertile oasis in a vast waste of pine woods, it was for decades largely cut off from touch with the outside world. —  The Reign of Andrew Jackson
  • In his Commentaries on Hippocrates, Galen professes a profound respect for his master, but the two great men must be regarded as the leaders of rival schools; indeed it could hardly be otherwise, seeing how vast was the mass of knowledge which Galen added to the art during his lifetime. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Jerome Cardan, by W.G. Waters.
  • My newborn mind is vast, my neural net a majesty of convoluted dream. —  F ;SF - vol 101 issue 06 - December 2001
 

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immense ·  entire ·  broad ·  mighty

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vast:   vaster
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Latin vāstus.

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  1. Early modern English vaste; from Old French vaste, French vaste = Spanish Portuguese Italian vasto, from Latin vastus, empty, unoccupied, desert, waste, desolate; hence, with reference to extent as implied in emptiness, immense, enormous, huge, vast; akin to Anglo-Saxon wēste, waste: see waste. Hence vastate, devastate, etc.
 

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