great
Part of speech: adj
intj
noun
adv
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From Middle English greet, grete (“great, large”), from Old English grēat (“big, massive; tall; thick; coarse”), from Proto-West Germanic *graut, from Proto-Germanic *grautaz (“coarse, crude; big, large”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrewd-, *gʰer- (“to rub; to stroke; to grind; to remove”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots graat, great, greet (“great”), Yola graat (“great”), North Frisian grat, groot, grot, grut, gråt, gurt (“big, great, large”), Saterland Frisian groot (“big, large”), West Frisian grut (“big, great, large”), Alemannic German groß, gruuss (“very large”), Central Franconian jruß (“big, great, large”), Cimbrian gròas, groaz (“big, great, large”), Dutch and German Low German groot (“big, great, large”), German gross, groß (“big, large”), Limburgish grut, gruët (“big, large; grand; tall; adult; pregnant”), Luxembourgish grouss (“big, great, large”), Mòcheno groas (“big, great, large”), Vilamovian grus, grūs (“big, great, large”), Yiddish גרויס (groys, “big, large”); also Latin grandis (“big, great, large”), Greek χρίω (chrío, “to anoint”), Albanian grind (“to brawl, fight”), Latvian grauds (“grain”), Lithuanian grūdas (“grain”), Czech hrouda, hruda (“clod”), Macedonian грутка (grutka, “clod, clump, lump”), Polish gruda (“clod, lump; frozen ground; mud fever, scratches”), Russian гру́да (grúda, “clod, heap, mass, pile”), Serbo-Croatian гру̏да, гру̏два, grȕda, grȕdva (“clod, lump; snowball”), Armenian կորկոտ (korkot, “groats of wheat or barley”), Sanskrit घर्षति (gharṣati, “to brush, polish, rub”). Related to grit. Doublet of gross.
The modern pronunciation shows an irregular change of Early Modern English /ɛː/ to /eɪ/ in the standard language; contrast this with the development of other words such as beat and heat.
Inflected forms:
form: greater
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: greatest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: geet
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Geordie
form: gert
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: girt
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: gurt
pos: adj
tags: alternative
UK
West-Country
form: geet
pos: intj
tags: alternative
Geordie
form: gert
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: girt
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: gurt
pos: intj
tags: alternative
UK
West-Country
form: greats
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: geet
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Geordie
form: gert
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: girt
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: gurt
pos: noun
tags: alternative
UK
West-Country
form: geet
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Geordie
form: gert
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: girt
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: gurt
pos: adv
tags: alternative
UK
West-Country
Senses:
gloss: Taking much space; large.
pos: adj
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.
gloss: Taking much space; large.
pos: adj
examples: 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.
gloss: Taking much space; large.
pos: adj
tags: UK
informal
examples: a dirty great smack in the face
Great Scott!
gloss: Very good; excellent; wonderful; fantastic.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: 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.
gloss: Important, consequential.
pos: adj
examples: 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.
Racism courses through Donald Trump’s blood and is one of the foundational principles of his presidency. Which is why, when faced with one of the greatest uprisings against police brutality this nation has seen, a movement led by black people around the country and joined by all other people of color and white people as well, his only policy solution is to start a race war.
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.
gloss: Involving more generations than the qualified word implies — as many extra generations as repetitions of the word great (from 1510s).
pos: adj
examples: great-grandfather, great-great-grandfather, great-great-great-grandfather
gloss: Pregnant; large with young; full of.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
postpositional
examples: great with child
great with hope
the ewes great with young
gloss: Intimate; familiar.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: those that are so great with him
gloss: Arising from or possessing idealism; admirable; commanding; illustrious; eminent.
pos: adj
examples: a great deed
a great nature
a great history
gloss: Impressive or striking.
pos: adj
examples: a great show of wealth
gloss: Much in use; favoured.
pos: adj
examples: Poetry was a great convention of the Romantic era.
gloss: Of much talent or achievements.
pos: adj
examples: a great hero, scholar, genius, philosopher, writer, etc.
gloss: Doing or exemplifying (a characteristic or pursuit) on a large scale; active or enthusiastic.
pos: adj
examples: What a great buffoon!
He’s not a great one for reading.
a great walker
gloss: Expression of gladness and content about something.
pos: intj
examples: Great! Thanks for the wonderful work.
—I am in my new apartment! —Great!
gloss: A sarcastic inversion thereof.
pos: intj
examples: Oh, great! I just dumped all 500 sheets of the manuscript all over and now I have to put them back in order.
gloss: A person of major significance, accomplishment or acclaim.
pos: noun
examples: Newton and Einstein are two of the greats of the history of science.
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.
gloss: The main division in a pipe organ, usually the loudest division.
pos: noun
gloss: An instance of the word "great" signifying an additional generation in phrases expressing family relationships.
pos: noun
examples: My three-greats grandmother.
gloss: Very well (in a very satisfactory manner).
pos: adv
tags: informal
not-comparable
examples: Those mechanical colored pencils work great because they don’t have to be sharpened.
Synonyms: grand
super-
supra-
hyper-
ultra-
uber-
macro-
arch-
over-
mega-
giga-
-zilla
gr8
grt
Antonyms: tiny
mediocre
ordinary
Derived words: 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 artery
Great Assize
great auk
great-aunt
great aunt
greataxe
great balls of fire
great bass
great bass recorder
great beyond
great bifurcation
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 Dying
great eggfly
great egret
greaten
Great Feasts
great fee
Great Filter
great go
great-go
great goosegrass
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 guns
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
Great Leap Forward
greatly
great man theory
great-martyr
great martyr
great martyress
great masquerader
great minds
great minds think alike
great morel
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 ragweed
great ramshorn
great reed warbler
great replacement
Great Replacement
great replacement theory
great reset
great rhododendron
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 slaty woodpecker
great snipe
greatsome
great spotted kiwi
great spotted woodpecker
great spur wheel
great stone-curlew
greatsword
great-tailed grackle
Great Terror
great thick-knee
great thrush
great tinamou
great-tit
great tit
great toe
great uncle
great-uncle
great unhosed
great unwashed
great vessel
Great Vowel Shift
great wall
Great War
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
piss on from a great height
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
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 Barrington
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 Cumbrae
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 Holland
Great Horton
Great Horwood
Great Houghton
Great Island
Great Kimble
Great Lakes
Great Longstone
Great Mackerel Beach
Great Malvern
Great Marlow
Great Missenden
Great Munden
Great Musgrave
Great Ness
Great North Road
Great Orme
Great Ouse
Great Oxendon
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 Snoring
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
Translations:
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 偉大 /伟大
roman: wěidà
lang: Maore Comorian
word: -ɓole
lang: Finnish
word: nerokas
lang: Finnish
word: lahjakas
lang: French
word: grand
lang: Japanese
word: 偉大な
roman: idai na
lang: Japanese
word: 非凡な
roman: idai na
lang: Kabuverdianu
word: nhaku
lang: Latin
word: magnus
lang: Persian
word: والا
roman: vâlâ
lang: Bulgarian
word: чуде́сно
roman: čudésno
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 太棒了
roman: tài bàng le
lang: Danish
word: fedt
lang: Danish
word: super
lang: Danish
word: nice
lang: Dutch
word: fantastisch
lang: Dutch
word: fijn
lang: Finnish
word: mahtavaa
lang: French
word: chouette
lang: French
word: génial
lang: French
word: très bien
lang: Georgian
word: ვაშა
roman: vaša
lang: German
word: prima
lang: German
word: super
lang: Greek
word: θαυμάσια
roman: thavmásia
lang: Hebrew
word: מעולה
roman: meʿule
lang: Hebrew
word: טוב מאוד
roman: tov meʾod
lang: Hebrew
word: נהדר
roman: nehedɑr
lang: Hungarian
word: szuper
lang: Icelandic
word: æðislegt
lang: Icelandic
word: frábært
lang: Irish
word: go hiontach
lang: Italian
word: grandioso
lang: Italian
word: bene
lang: Italian
word: grande
lang: Japanese
word: すごい
roman: sugoi
lang: Central Kurdish
word: باشە
roman: başe
lang: Central Kurdish
word: زۆر چاکە
roman: zor çake
lang: Latin
word: babae
lang: Macedonian
word: супер
roman: super
lang: Macedonian
word: одлично
roman: odlično
lang: Malay
word: bagus
lang: Polish
word: świetnie
lang: Polish
word: super
lang: Portuguese
word: magnífico
lang: Portuguese
word: ótimo
lang: Russian
word: здо́рово
roman: zdórovo
lang: Russian
word: отли́чно
roman: otlíčno
lang: Russian
word: класс
roman: klass
lang: Spanish
word: bien
lang: Spanish
word: genial
lang: Swedish
word: jättebra
lang: Tamil
word: சூப்பர்
roman: cūppar
lang: Tamil
word: பிரமாதம்
roman: piramātam
lang: Tamil
word: செம்ம
roman: cemma
lang: Thai
word: ยอดเยี่ยม
roman: yot yiam
lang: Venetan
word: vèrceghe
lang: Vietnamese
word: tuyệt
lang: Vietnamese
word: tuyệt vời