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English Dictionary: vast	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for vast
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
vast adj unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope; "huge government spending"; "huge country estates"; "huge popular demand for higher education"; "a huge wave"; "the Los Angeles aqueduct winds like an immense snake along the base of the mountains"; "immense numbers of birds"; "at vast (or immense) expense"; "the vast reaches of outer space"; "the vast accumulation of knowledge...which we call civilization"- W.R.Inge Synonym(s): huge, immense, vast, Brobdingnagian
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vast \Vast\, a. [Compar. {Vaster}; superl. {Vastest}.] [L. vastus empty, waste, enormous, immense: cf. F. vaste. See {Waste}, and cf. {Devastate}.] 1. Waste; desert; desolate; lonely. [Obs.] The empty, vast, and wandering air. --Shak. 2. Of great extent; very spacious or large; also, huge in bulk; immense; enormous; as, the vast ocean; vast mountains; the vast empire of Russia. Through the vast and boundless deep. --Milton. 3. Very great in numbers, quantity, or amount; as, a vast army; a vast sum of money. 4. Very great in importance; as, a subject of vast concern. Syn: Enormous; huge; immense; mighty.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vast \Vast\, n. A waste region; boundless space; immensity. [bd]The watery vast.[b8] --Pope. Michael bid sound The archangel trumpet. Through the vast of heaven It sounded. --Milton.