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Vast Meaning & Definition
Vast Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of 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

Synonyms | Synonyms for Vast: big | huge | immense | large

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Vast In Webster's Dictionary

\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.
\Vast\, n. A waste region; boundless space; immensity. ``The watery vast.'' --Pope. Michael bid sound The archangel trumpet. Through the vast of heaven It sounded. --Milton.

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