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/ɡɹˈeɪtnəs/
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[ US /ˈɡɹeɪtnəs/ ]
[ US /ˈɡɹeɪtnəs/ ]
NOUN
- unusual largeness in size or extent or number
- the property possessed by something or someone of outstanding importance or eminence
How To Use greatness In A Sentence
- When women give up their souls to the ultimate colonization known as heteronormative existence, they lose their shot at greatness. Women's Space
- Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great. Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Eleven score and thirteen years ago, a document was signed - it demanded greatness from a people and a place. 8 posts from July 2009
- By the glimmer of light lent me, I can but guess greatness and descry vagueness. The Kempton-Wace Letters
- That you know; and you know too, that she purchased her glory and her greatness not by faint-heartedness, but by choosing to suffer pain and incur dangers in the day of need. Hellenica
- Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
- When Sampras was taking his first steps to greatness, he had a small gang of hopefuls dogging his footsteps.
- Next came scores of Yeshiva students singing stirring songs about the greatness of the Torah.
- He is blinded and befogged by two things: (1) his (i.e. their) aristocratism, and again (2) his satisfaction in splendour and get-up, provided it is attached to moral greatness. Cyropaedia
- It's like the music in the movies where the hero is training for greatness; sparring in a basement with a punching bag or running like the wind or something.