Meaning of great | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Taking much space; large.
2. Much, more than usual.
3. I was greatly impressed by her singing. baie بِصورَة عَظيمَه значително muito velmi, velice sehr meget; yderst πολύmuy eriti بسیار؛ به شدت hyvin grandement בְּמִידָה רַבָּה अत्यन्त jako, snažno nagyon sangat stórlega, mjög grandemente, moltissimo 大いに 대단히 didžiai, labai ļoti; ievērojami sangat zeersvært, veldignadzwyczaj ډېر: دلويۍ او شرافت له مخې muito foarte mult очень, весьма veľmi zelo izuzetno mycket, storligen อย่างมาก çok, ziyadesiyle 非常 дуже بہت زیادہ nhiều; lắm 非常
4. Intensifying a word or expression, used in mild oaths.
   British, informal
5. her greatness as an athlete. grootheid عَظَمَه величие grandeza (značná) velikost die Größe, die Bedeutung storhed μεγαλείοgrandeza, importancia suurus عظمت suuruus importanceגדולה बड़प्पन veličina nagyság kehebatan mikilleiki; mikilvægi grandezza 偉大さ 위대함 talentingumas, puikumas lielums; diženums keunggulan grootsheid storhet, formatwielkość غټ والى grandeza importanţă, măreţie величие veľkosť veličina veličina storhet ความยิ่งใหญ่ büyüklük 巨大，偉大 величина; сила عظمت sự cao quý 巨大，伟大
6. Very good; excellent; wonderful; fantastic.
   informal
7. grande, grandioso-a;in ___ detail → muy minucioso;
8. Important, consequential.
9. Very large in size, extent, or intensity: a great pile of rubble; a great storm.
10. Involving more generations than the qualified word implies — as many extra generations as repetitions of the word great (from 1510s).
11. Remarkable or outstanding in magnitude, degree, or extent: a great crisis; great anticipation.
12. Pregnant; large with young; full of.
    obsolete, postpositional
13. Informal a. Very good; first-rate: We had a great time at the dance.
    Informal
14. Intimate; familiar.
    obsolete
15. Being one generation removed from the relative specified. Often used in combination: a great-granddaughter.
16. Arising from or possessing idealism; admirable; commanding; illustrious; eminent.
17. Archaic Pregnant.
    Archaic
18. Impressive or striking.
19. pl. greats or great One that is great: a composer considered among the greats.
20. Much in use; favoured.
21. Music a. A division of most pipe organs, usually containing the most powerful ranks of pipes.
    Music
22. Of much talent or achievements.
23. Doing or exemplifying (a characteristic or pursuit) on a large scale; active or enthusiastic.

Equivalents

Examples

““[…] 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.[…]””

“‘Children crawled over each other like little grey worms in the gutters,’ he said. ‘The only red things about them were their buttocks and they were raw. Their faces looked as if snails had slimed on them and their mothers were like great sick beasts whose byres had never been cleared.[…]’”

“Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe. Some call it geoeconomics, but it's geopolitics too. The current power play consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate big free trade and investment agreements.”

“great worry”

““We are engaged in a great work, a treatise on our river fortifications, perhaps? But since when did army officers afford the luxury of amanuenses in this simple republic?””

“The first half of this century has been referred to as the golden age of medicine. To me it seems more probable that we are on the threshold of a much greater age.”

“a dirty great smack in the face”

“Great Scott!”

“Dinner was great.”

“He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights,[…], the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.”

“a great dilemma”

“a great decision”

“So the King made Daniel a great man […]”

“The Dawn is over-caſt, the Morning low’rs, And heavily in Clouds brings on the Day, The great, th’ important Day; big with the Fate Of Cato and of Rome.”

“The methods for finding parameters that are commonly used in RBC models include using coefficients that come from microeconomic studies for parameters like the time discount factor, rental income over total income for the parameters of a Cobb-Douglas production function, and adjusting parameters so that stationary state value values approach those of the great ratios such as consumption over income and capital over income.”

“I’ll cover fiscal theory and the recent inflation (again!) of course, but also more recent thoughts on the great puzzle of monetary economics, how central banks can lower inflation by raising nominal interest rates.”

“great-grandfather, great-great-grandfather, great-great-great-grandfather”

“great with child”

“great with hope”

“the ewes great with young”

“those that are so great with him”

“a great deed”

“a great nature”

“a great history”

“a great show of wealth”

“Poetry was a great convention of the Romantic era.”

“a great hero, scholar, genius, philosopher, writer, etc.”

“What a great buffoon!”

“He’s not a great one for reading.”

“a great walker”

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