Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Very great in size, extent, or quantity. synonym: enormous.
- adjective Very great in scope or import.
- noun An immense space.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Wide and vacant or unoccupied; waste; desolate; lonely.
- Being of great extent or size; very spacious or large; enormous; massive; immense.
- Very great in quantity, number, or amount.
- Very great as to degree, intensity, difficulty of accomplishment, importance, etc.; mighty: used also in exaggerated colloquial speech, being much affected in the eighteenth century.
- Synonyms Spacious.
- 3 and Colossal, gigantic, prodigious, tremendous, stupendous.
- noun A boundless waste or space; immensity.
- noun A great deal; a large quantity or number.
- noun The darkness of night, in which the prospect is not bounded in by distinct objects: only in the following passage.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A waste region; boundless space; immensity.
- adjective obsolete Waste; desert; desolate; lonely.
- adjective Of great extent; very spacious or large; also, huge in bulk; immense; enormous.
- adjective Very great in numbers, quantity, or amount.
- adjective Very great in force; mighty.
- adjective Very great in importance.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Very large or wide (literally or figuratively).
- adjective Very great in size, amount, degree, intensity, or especially extent.
- noun poetic A vast space.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Some of the phrases they gave me, such as the phrase "vast majority" used twice were pretty vague, and because I hadn't seen the actual language, I was reporting only what I was told, but it sounded like we were headed toward fairly tight release language on the settlement.
Mike Lux: The Great Task Force and Settlement Debate Mike Lux 2012
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Some of the phrases they gave me, such as the phrase "vast majority" used twice were pretty vague, and because I hadn't seen the actual language, I was reporting only what I was told, but it sounded like we were headed toward fairly tight release language on the settlement.
Mike Lux: The Great Task Force and Settlement Debate Mike Lux 2012
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Some of the phrases they gave me, such as the phrase "vast majority" used twice were pretty vague, and because I hadn't seen the actual language, I was reporting only what I was told, but it sounded like we were headed toward fairly tight release language on the settlement.
Mike Lux: The Great Task Force and Settlement Debate Mike Lux 2012
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Some of the phrases they gave me, such as the phrase "vast majority" used twice were pretty vague, and because I hadn't seen the actual language, I was reporting only what I was told, but it sounded like we were headed toward fairly tight release language on the settlement.
Mike Lux: The Great Task Force and Settlement Debate Mike Lux 2012
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Some of the phrases they gave me, such as the phrase "vast majority" used twice were pretty vague, and because I hadn't seen the actual language, I was reporting only what I was told, but it sounded like we were headed toward fairly tight release language on the settlement.
Mike Lux: The Great Task Force and Settlement Debate Mike Lux 2012
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Minow coined the phrase "vast wasteland" in 1961, he was referring to television.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2011
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The English word vast is derived from the Sanskrit vas, so Vasudeva also means that vast and all-encompassing Supreme Being within whom all other beings are contained.
Spiritual Teachings of the Avatar Jeffrey Armstrong 2010
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The English word vast is derived from the Sanskrit vas, so Vasudeva also means that vast and all-encompassing Supreme Being within whom all other beings are contained.
Spiritual Teachings of the Avatar Jeffrey Armstrong 2010
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The English word vast is derived from the Sanskrit vas, so Vasudeva also means that vast and all-encompassing Supreme Being within whom all other beings are contained.
Spiritual Teachings of the Avatar Jeffrey Armstrong 2010
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I'd like to blame the French toast, the mocha lattes, the pizza, and what I call the vast buffalo wing conspiracy.
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