From en.wiktionary.org:
[gréât]
** English
[wikipedia]
*** Alternative forms
- [en]
*** Etymology
[en] From [en], from [en], from [en], from [en], from [en], [ine-pro].
Cognate with [sco], [sco], [sco], [sco], [frr], [frr], [frr], [stq], [fy],
[nl], [de], [de], [lb], [ang]. Related to [en]. [en].
*** Pronunciation
- [grāt]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
[obsolete] :
- [grīt] , [en] [1]
- [en] , [2] [/ɡɹet/] <ref name="Crystal"/>
*** Adjective
[er]
1. Taking much space ; large .
2. * [chapter=1]
3. * [chapter=7]
4. * [en]
1. [en] Much , more than usual.
2. * [chapter= I]
3. * [en]
4. [en] [Intensifying a word or expression, used in mild oath s.]
5. [en] Very good ; excellent ; wonderful ; fantastic . [from 1848]
6. * [chapter=5]
7. Important , consequential .
8. * [Daniel]
9. * [i]
10. * {{ quote-book | en | year=2008 | author=George McCandless | title=The ABCs of RBCs | publisher=Harvard University Press | page=2
|passage=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.}}
1. [en] Involving more generations than the qualified word implies — as many extra generations as repetitions of the word _great_ (from 1510s). [ see Derived terms ]
2. [en] Pregnant ; large with young ; full of.
3. * [Psalms]
4. [en] Intimate ; familiar .
5. * [chapter=Of Followers and Friends]
6. [en] Arising from or possessing idealism ; admirable ; commanding ; illustrious ; eminent .
7. Impressive or striking .
8. Much in use ; favoured .
9. [en] Of much talent or achievements.
10. Doing or exemplify ing (a characteristic or pursuit ) on a large scale; active or enthusiastic .
**** Usage notes
- Moderating adverbs such as _fairly_ , _somewhat_ , etc. tend not to be used with _great_ . Some intensifiers can be used with some senses of _great_ ; for example, _a very great amount_ , _a very great man_ , _the party was really great_ , though not _*the party was very great_ .
**** Synonyms
- [augmentative] [en] , [en] , [en] , [en] , [en] , [en] , [en] , [en] , [en] , [en] , [en] , [en]
- See also Thesaurus:large
- See also Thesaurus:excellent
- [en] , [en] [Internet slang, text messaging]
**** Antonyms
- [very big, large scale] [en]
- [uncommonly gifted] [en] , [en]
**** Derived terms
{{col|en|a great deal |a great many |behind every great man is a great woman
|behind every great man there stands a woman |child-great |death is the great
leveller |double great primer |engreaten |go great guns |go to great lengths
|great albatross |great antshrike |great ape| great slaty
woodpecker|great-martyr |Great Assize |great auk |great-aunt |great aunt
|greataxe |great balls of fire |great bass |great bass recorder |great beyond
|great big |great bit bucket in the sky |great bittern |great black-backed
gull |great black hawk |great blue heron |great blue lobelia |greatbow |great
brown kingfisher |great bulrush |great bustard |great cabin |great Caesar's
ghost |great cardiac vein |great casino |great cassino |great cat |great
cerebral vein |great chain of being |great chamber |great circle |great-circle
arc |great circle arc |great circle route |greatcoat |great comet |great
conjunction |great cormorant |great crest |great crested grebe |great crested
newt |great cry and little wool |great cubicuboctahedron |Great Dane |great
deal |great divide |great dodecahedron |great eggfly |great egret |greaten
|Great Feasts |great fee |Great Filter |great-go |great go |great-grand
|great-grandaunt |great-grandchild |great grandchild |great
granddaughter,great-granddaughter |great grandfather,great-grandfather
|great-grandfather-in-law |great-grandkid |great grandkid |great-grandma
|great grandmaster |great grandmother,great-grandmother |great grand multipara
|great grand multiparity |great grand multiparous |great-grandnephew
|great-grandniece |great-grandpa |great-grandparent |great grandparent
|great-grandparenthood |great grandson,great-grandson |great-granduncle |great
great grandchild |great-great-grandchild |great-great-granddaughter |great
great granddaughter |great great grandfather |great-great-grandfather
|great-great-grandma |great great grandmother |great-great-grandmother
|great-great-grandparent |great great grandparent |great-great-grandson |great
great grandson |great great great grandfather |great-great-great-grandfather
|great great great grandmother |great-great-great-grandmother
|great-great-nephew |great green macaw |great grey owl |great grey shrike
|great gross |great gun |great hall |greathammer |great haste makes great
waste |Greathead |greathearted |great-hearted |great-heartedness |great heaume
|great heavens |great helm |great horned owl |great horsetail |Great Hours
|great house |great hundred |great icosahedron |great icosihemidodecahedron
|great imitator |greatish |great job |great knot |great laurel |greatly |great
man theory |great martyr |great martyress |great masquerader |great minds
|great minds think alike |great mullein |great-nephew |greatness |great-niece
|great northern bean |great northern diver |great northern loon |great
northern prawn |great northern shrike |great oaks from little acorns grow
|great octave |great office of state |great one |great outdoors |great power
|great pox |great-pox |great primer |great prior |great ramshorn |great reed
warbler |great replacement |Great Replacement |great replacement theory |great
reset |great rhombicuboctahedron |Great Rift Valley |great room |greatroom
|great saphenous vein |great sapphirewing |great Satan |great Scott |great
seahorse |great seal |great seal script |great skua |great snipe |greatsome
|great spotted kiwi |great spotted woodpecker |great stone-curlew |greatsword
|great-tailed grackle |Great Terror |great thick-knee |great tinamou
|great-tit |great tit |great toe |great-uncle |great uncle |great unhosed
|great unwashed |great vessel |Great Vowel Shift |great whale |great wheel
|great white |great white egret |great white heron |great white hope |great
white rat |great white shark |great willowherb |grunkle |little strokes fell
great oaks |no great scratch |no great shakes |nongreat |overgreat |pearl of
great price |small rain lays great dust |success is a great deodorant |take
great pains |the great and the good |time is a great healer |time is a great
healer of all wounds |time is the great healer |to a great extent |two-line
great primer |ungreat |winning is a great deodorant |with great difficulty }}
{{col4|en|title=Place names including "Great" |Great Alne |Great Altcar |Great
Amwell |Great and Little Hampden |Great and Little Leighs |Great Australian
Bight |Great Aycliffe |Great Ayton |Great Bardfield |Great Barford |Great Barr
|Great Barrier Island |Great Barrier Reef |Great Barton |Great Bavington
|Great Bedwyn |Great Belt |Great Bend |Great Bentley |Great Bernera |Great
Bookham |Great Bourton |Great Bowden |Great Bridge |Great Bridgeford |Great
Britain |Great Broughton |Great Budworth |Great Chart |Great Chesterford
|Great Cheverell |Great Comberton |Great Coxwell |Great Dalby |Great Dawley
|Great Driffield |Great Dunmow |Great Ellingham |Great Elm |Great Falls |Great
Glen |Great Gonerby |Great Hampden |Great Harrowden |Great Harwood |Great
Haywood |Great Heck |Great Horton |Great Horwood |Great Houghton |Great Island
|Great Kimble |Great Lakes |Great Longstone |Great Malvern |Great Missenden
|Great Munden |Great Musgrave |Great Ness |Great North Road |Great Orme |Great
Ouse |Great Pacific Garbage Patch |Great Paxton |Great Ponton |Great Rollright
|Great Salkeld |Great Salt Lake |Great Sankey |Great Shefford |Great Shelford
|Great Slave Lake |Great Somerford |Great Southern |Great Stour |Great Sutton
|Great Tew |Great Tey |Great Torrington |Great Urswick |Great Wakering |Great
Wall of China |Great Waltham |Great Welnetham |Great Whelnetham |Great
Witchingham |Great Wolford |Great Yarmouth |Great Yeldham }}
**** Descendants
- [bor=1]
**** Translations
[very big, large scale]
- Afrikaans: [af]
- Albanian: [sq]
- Arabic: [ar] , [ar]
- Aramaic:
- Armenian: [hy]
- Bavarian: [bar]
- Belarusian: [be]
- Bengali: [bn]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Burmese: [my]
- Catalan: [ca] , [ca]
- Cherokee: [chr]
- Chinese:
- Cornish: [unified] [kw]
- Crimean Tatar: [crh]
- Czech: [cs]
- Dalmatian: [dlm] , [dlm]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Egyptian: [ꜥꜣ]
- Erzya: [myv]
- Eshtehardi: [esh]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Estonian: [et]
- Faroese: [fo] , [fo]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] , [fi] , [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Friulian: [fur]
- Galician: [gl]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de]
- Gothic: [got]
- Greek: [el]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Icelandic: [is] , [is]
- Ido: [io]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Irish: [ga] , [ga]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja] , [ja]
- Kazakh: [kk]
- Korean: [ko] , [ko] , [ko]
- Kurdish:
- Kyrgyz: [ky]
- Latin: [la] , [la]
- Latvian: [lv] , [lv] , [lv]
- Lithuanian: [lt]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Maore Comorian: [swb]
- Maori: [mi] , [mi]
- Maranao: [mrw]
- Mizo: [lus] , [lus]
- Mòcheno: [mhn]
- Mongolian:
- Navajo: [nv]
- Neapolitan: [nap]
- North Frisian: [Föhr-Amrum] [frr]
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Old East Slavic: [orv]
- Old English: [ang]
- Old Norse: [non] , [non]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota] , [ota] , [ota] , [ota]
- Pashto: [ps] , [ps]
- Persian: [fa] , [fa] , [fa]
- Plautdietsch: [pdt]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt] , [pt]
- Quechua: [qu]
- Rapa Nui: [rap]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Sanskrit: [sa] , [sa]
- Scots: [sco] , [sco] , [sco]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovak: [sk]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es] [Latin America] , [es] [Southern Cone] , [es] [negative contexts]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Tajik: [tg]
- Telugu: [te]
- Tocharian B: [txb]
- Turkish: [tr] , [tr]
- Udi: [udi]
- Ugaritic: [uga]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
- Vietnamese: [vi] , [vi]
- Welsh: [cy]
- West Frisian: [fy]
- Woiwurrung: [wyi]
[trans-bottom]
[very good]
- Akkadian: [akk]
- Arabic: [ar] , [ar]
- Aramaic:
- Armenian: [hy]
- Belarusian: [be] , [be]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Catalan: [ca] , [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] , [fi] , [fi] , [fi] [informal]
- French: [fr] , [fr] , [fr]
- Georgian: [ka] , [ka]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de] , [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hebrew: [he] ; [he] ; [he]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Ido: [io] , [io]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it] , [it] , [it] , [it] , [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja] , [ja] , [ja]
- Korean: [ko] , [ko] , [ko] , [ko]
- Kurdish:
- Latin: [la] , [la]
- Latvian: [lv] , [lv]
- Lithuanian: [lt] , [lt]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Mizo: [lus] , [lus]
- Norwegian:
- Occitan: [oc]
- Pashto: [ps]
- Persian: [fa]
- Plautdietsch: [pdt]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro] , [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Scots: [sco]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovak: [sk]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] [Southern Cone] , [es] [Latin American] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es]
- Sumerian: [sux]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Ugaritic: [uga]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk] , [uk]
- Vietnamese: [vi]
- Welsh: [cy] , [cy]
[trans-bottom]
[family relationship]
- Assamese: [as]
- Finnish: [fi]
[trans-bottom]
[uncommonly gifted]
- Chinese:
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja]
- Kabuverdianu: [kea]
- Latin: [la]
- Maore Comorian: [swb]
- Persian: [fa]
[trans-bottom]
[important]
[important title]
- Albanian: [sq]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Bengali: [bn]
- Bengali: [bn]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Italian: [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Khmer: [km]
- Korean: [ko]
- Latin: [la]
- Lithuanian: [lt]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Pashto: [ps]
- Persian: [fa]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt] , [pt]
- Russian: [ru]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv] [as in: Alexander den store]
- Vietnamese: [vi] [Roman Catholic]
[trans-bottom]
[checktrans-top]
- Danish: [da]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de] , [de] [ 3 ]
- Gilaki: [glk]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Ido: [io]
- Italian: [it]
- Indonesian: [id] , [id] , [id]
- Mazanderani: [mzn]
- Romanian: ... [ro] , [ro] , [ro] < !-- apparently needs [t-SOP] ... -->
- Serbo-Croatian: [sh] , [sh]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv] , [sv]
- Woiwurrung: [wyi]
[trans-bottom]
*** Interjection
[en-interj]
1. Expression of gladness and content about something.
2. * 2016 , VOA Learning English (see https://web.archive.org/web/20170918070146/https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/lets-learn-english-lesson-3-i-am-here/3126527.html) (public domain)
3. *: —I am in my new apartment! — GREAT !
4. A sarcastic inversion thereof.
**** Translations
[great!]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Danish: [da] , [da] , [da]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr] , [fr]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hebrew: [he] , [he] , [he]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Icelandic: [is] , [is]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it] , [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Kurdish:
- Latin: [la]
- Macedonian: [mk] , [mk]
- Malay: [ms]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru] [colloquial]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Thai: [th]
- Venetan: [vec]
[trans-bottom]
*** Noun
[en-noun]
1. A person of major significance , accomplishment or acclaim .
2. * {{ quote-journal | en | date=1 May 2019 | author=Daniel Taylor | journal=The Guardian | url=https://www.theguardian.com/football/2019/may/01/barcelona-liverpool-champions-league-match-report
|passage=Sadio Mané wasted a glorious chance in the first half and, late on,
Mohamed Salah turned his shot against a post after a goal-line clearance had
spun his way. That, in a nutshell, perhaps sums up the difference between
Messi and the players on the next rung below – the ones who can be described
as great footballers without necessarily being football GREATS.}}
1. [en] The main division in a pipe organ , usually the loudest division.
2. [en] An instance of the word "great" signifying an additional generation in phrases expressing family relationships.
**** Antonyms
- [person of major significance, accomplishment or acclaim] [en]
**** Translations
[person of major significance, accomplishment or acclaim]
- Bengali: [bn]
- Bengali: [bn]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Chinese:
- German: [de]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Kabuverdianu: [kea]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Norwegian:
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Telugu: [te]
- Turkish: [tr]
[trans-bottom]
*** Adverb
[-]
1. [en] Very well [in a very satisfactory manner] .
**** Translations
[very well]
- Georgian: [ka] , [ka] , [ka] , [ka]
- Italian: [it] , [it]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es]
[trans-bottom]
*** References
References:
[1]. [I]
[2]. David Crystal, _The Oxford Dictionary of Original Shakespearean Pronunciation_ , 2016
*** Anagrams
- [en]
[en]
** Old English
*** Etymology
From [ang], from [ang], from [ine-pro].
Cognate with [osx], [goh], [ang]. More at [en].
*** Pronunciation
- [grēat]
*** Adjective
[grēat]
1. great , massive
2. tall
3. thick ; stout
4. coarse
**** Declension
[grēat]
**** Derived terms
- [ang]
**** Descendants
- [enm]
** Scots
*** Alternative forms
- [sco]
- [sco]
*** Etymology
From [sco], from [sco], from [sco], from [sco].
*** Pronunciation
- [sco]
- [sco]
- [sco]
*** Adjective
[er]
1. great
2. coarse [in grain or texture]
3. thick , bulky , roomy [of things]
4. big , stout [of people]
5. swollen with rain, in flood [of a river]
6. high , stormy [of the sea]
7. intimate , friendly
*** References
- [pos=adj., n]