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GREAT, adjective [Latin crassus.] 1. Large in bulk or dimensions; a term of comparison, denoting more magnitude or extension than something else, or beyond what is usual; as a great body; a great house; a great farm. 2. Being of extended length or breadth; as a great distance; a great lake. 3. Large in number; as a great many; a great multitude. 4. Expressing a large, extensive or unusual degree of any thing; as great fear; great love; great strength; great wealth; great power; great influence; great folly. 5. Long continued; as a great while. 6. Important; weighty; as a great argument; a great truth; a great event; a thing of no great consequence; it is no great matter. 7. Chief; principal; as the great seal of England. 8. Chief; of vast power and excellence; supreme; illustrious; as the great God; the great Creator. 9. Vast; extensive; wonderful; admirable. GREAT are thy works. Jehovah. 10. Possessing large or strong powers of mind; as a great genius. 11. Having made extensive or unusual acquisitions of science or knowledge; as a great philosopher or botanist; a great scholar. 12. Distinguished by rank, office or power; elevated; eminent; as a great lord; the great men of the nation; the great Mogul; Alexander the great 13. Dignified in aspect, mien or manner. Amidst the crowd she walks serenely great 14. Magnanimous; generous; of elevated sentiments; high-minded. He has a great soul. 15. Rich; sumptuous; magnificent. He disdained not to appear at great tables. A great feast or entertainment. 16. Vast; sublime; as a great conception or idea. 17. Dignified; noble. Nothing can be great which is not right. 18. Swelling; proud; as, he was not disheartened by great looks. 19. Chief; principal; much traveled; as a great road. The ocean is called the great highway of nations. 20. Pregnant; teeming; as great with young. 21. Hard; difficult. It is no great matter to live in peace with meek people. 22. Familiar; intimate. [Vulgar.] 23. Distinguished by extraordinary events, or unusual importance. Jude 1:6. 24. Denoting a degree of consanguinity, in the ascending or descending line, as great grandfather, the father of a grandfather; great great grandfather, the father of a great grandfather, and so on indefinitely; and great grandson, great great grandson. etc. 25. Superior; preeminent; as great chamberlain; great marshal. The sense of great is to be understood by the things it is intended to qualify. great pain or wrath is violent pain or wrath; great love is ardent love; great peace is entire peace; a great name is extensive renown; a great evil or sin, is a sin of deep malignity, etc. GREAT, noun The whole; the gross; the lump or mass; as, a carpenter contracts to build a ship by the great 1. People of rank or distinction. The poor envy the great and the great despise the poor.