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Great

adjective

(compar. greater; superl. greatest)

Relatively large in size or number or extent; larger than others of its kind. "A great multitude" , "The great auk" , "A great old oak" , "A great ocean liner" , "A great delay"

Of major significance or importance. Synonym: outstanding. "Einstein was one of the outstanding figures of the 20th centurey"

Remarkable or out of the ordinary in degree or magnitude or effect. "Had a great stake in the outcome"

Very good. Synonyms: bang-up, bully, corking, cracking, dandy, groovy, keen, neat, nifty, not bad, peachy, slap-up, smashing, swell. "A neat sports car" , "Had a great time at the party" , "You look simply smashing"

Uppercase. Synonyms: capital, majuscule. "Great A" , "Many medieval manuscripts are in majuscule script"

In an advanced stage of pregnancy. Synonyms: big, enceinte, expectant, gravid, heavy, large, with child. "Was great with child"

noun

A person who has achieved distinction and honor in some field.

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... doors to watch his course, and for the next few minutes we do not know whether it is hot or cold, perspiring less during our exertions, I strongly suspect, than we did while sitting in the chair. At all events, it is obvious that our thoughts played quite as great a part in our discomfort as did the heat ...

— Why Worry? • George Lincoln Walton, M.D.

... had lately lost his, he adopted me, and I became bound to him as an apprentice till I was fourteen. The clergyman's daughter took a fancy to me from the first, and she used to teach me for half an hour a day, which gave me a great advantage over the other boys in the school. I was very fond of reading, and she supplied me with books. As I said I meant to go to sea, she bought me some books that would help me. So there is nothing extraordinary ...

— By Conduct and Courage • G. A. Henty

... train of thoughts, too, running through their minds, as to how the poor fellow could have got there; and Saxe could only find bottom in one idea—that they had been confusedly wandering about, returning another way, till they had accidentally hit upon a further development of the great crevasse into which the guide ...

— The Crystal Hunters - A Boy's Adventures in the Higher Alps • George Manville Fenn

... a mile," said the guide, gazing up thoughtfully at the smooth snowfield; "but there is a great slope there." ...

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... ambitious officers with great caution; and the representations, which he made through some judicious persons who had the most intimate access to them, were so successful, that both were in a short time prevailed on to relinquish their ...

— History Of The Conquest Of Peru • William Hickling Prescott

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