vast
Meaning
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- Very large or wide (literally or figuratively).
- Very great in size, amount, degree, intensity, or especially extent.
- (obsolete) Waste; desert; desolate; lonely.
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/vɑːst/
Etymology
From Middle French vaste, from Latin vastus (“void, immense”). Related to waste and German Wüste.
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