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UK
/ɡɹˈeɪt/
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[ US /ˈɡɹeɪt/ ]
[ US /ˈɡɹeɪt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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remarkable or out of the ordinary in degree or magnitude or effect
had a great stake in the outcome
a great crisis -
relatively large in size or number or extent; larger than others of its kind
a great multitude
the great auk
a great delay
a great old oak
a great ocean liner
a great juicy steak -
of major significance or importance
Einstein was one of the outstanding figures of the 20th centurey
a great work of art -
in an advanced stage of pregnancy
was big with child
was great with child -
uppercase
capital A
great A
many medieval manuscripts are in majuscule script -
very good
you look simply smashing
we had a grand old time
a neat sports car
had a great time at the party
he did a bully job
NOUN
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a person who has achieved distinction and honor in some field
he is one of the greats of American music
How To Use great In A Sentence
- Smith, who is also a director of Norwich City Football Club, said her CBE was a "very, very great honour". BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition
- Their dried dung is found everywhere, and is in many places the only fuel afforded by the plains; their skulls, which last longer than any other part of the animal, are among the most familiar of objects to the plainsman; their bones are in many districts so plentiful that it has become a regular industry, followed by hundreds of men (christened "bone hunters" by the frontiersmen), to go out with wagons and collect them in great numbers for the sake of the phosphates they yield; and Bad Lands, plateaus, and prairies alike, are cut up in all directions by the deep ruts which were formerly buffalo trails. VIII. The Lordly Buffalo
- A great deal of the nudge-nudge wink-wink routine by the young upwardly mobile male executives was the usual response to her presence.
- I have no great picture of her to link because I am out of town in San Francisco and all the pictures I have are the naked librarian Playboy centerfolds I got in email a few days back.
- Neither of them sugar-coat the ups and down of working in the industry, but they will open your eyes a great deal about the false assumptions that you're making.
- Epsom showed a great deal of heart considering their lowly league position but there are days when courage counts for naught and this was one of them.
- Spinach, endive and romaine lettuce are great in salads; just dress with a little olive oil and red wine vinegar.
- Gwenhidwy likes to drink a lot, grain alcohol mostly, mixed in great strange mad-scientist concoctions with beef tea, grenadine, cough syrup, bitter belch-gathering infusions of blue scullcap, valerian root, motherwort and lady's-slipper, whatever's to hand really. Gravity's Rainbow
- Not only by the immense number of adherents that were won to his views during his lifetime, but also by the literary productions he left behind him, Tsong K'aba's influence has been great during the last five centuries of Tibetan history. With the Tibetans in Tent and Temple: Narrative of Four Years' Residence on the Tibetan Borders, and of a Journey into the Far Interior
- All Slavic languages, to a greater or lesser degree, have developed from contact with the Urnfield culture.
