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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

V'AST, a. [L. vastus. The primary sense of the root must be a part or spread, as this is connected with the verb to waste.]
1. Being of great extent; very spacious or large; as the vast ocean; a vast abyss; the vast empire of Russia; the vast plains of Syria; the vast domains of the Almighty.
2. Huge in bulk and extent; as the vast mountains of Asia; the vast range of the Andes.
3. Very great in numbers or amount; as a vast army; vast numbers or multitudes were slain; vast sums of money have been expended to gratify pride and ambition.
4. Very great in force; mighty; as vast efforts; vast labor.
5. Very great in importance; as a subject of vast concern.
V'AST, n. An empty waste.
Through the vast of heav'n it sounded.
The watery vast.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: 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 [syn: huge, immense, vast, Brobdingnagian]

Merriam Webster's

I. adjective Etymology: Latin vastus; akin to Old High German wuosti empty, desolate, Old Irish fás Date: 1585 very great in size, amount, degree, intensity, or especially in extent or range <vast knowledge> <a vast expanse> Synonyms: see enormous • vastly adverb • vastness noun II. noun Date: 1604 a boundless space <the vast of heaven — John Milton>

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. & n. --adj. 1 immense, huge; very great (a vast expanse of water; a vast crowd). 2 colloq. great, considerable (makes a vast difference). --n. poet. or rhet. a vast space (the vast of heaven). Derivatives: vastly adv. vastness n. Etymology: L vastus void, immense

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Vast 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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Vast 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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(vaster, vastest) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. Something that is vast is extremely large. ...Afrikaner farmers who own vast stretches of land... The vast majority of the eggs would be cracked. = huge ADJ: usu ADJ n • vastness ...the vastness of the desert.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Very spacious, very extensive, boundless, measureless, wide. 2. Very great (in numbers), immense. 3. Huge, enormous, immense, colossal, gigantic, prodigious, stupendous, very great, monstrous. 4. Very great (in force), mighty, tremendous. 5. Remarkable, extraordinary.

Moby Thesaurus

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