great

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/ˈɡɹeɪt/

adj 5noun 3intj 2adv 1

Collocations

(adj.) large in amount/degree/size, etc.

VERBS

be | become

ADV

very

The team's performance this season has been very great, winning almost every match.

PHRASES

great big

We had to move a great big box up the stairs this morning.

no great

I'm afraid there's no great difference between these two models, so either one will work fine.

(adj.) admired

VERBS

ADV

really, truly, very

She's a really great teacher who makes difficult math concepts easy to understand.

(adj.) very good/pleasant

VERBS

be, feel, look, seem, smell, sound, taste

Your new haircut looks great and makes you seem much more confident.

ADV

really

My new apartment is really great because it has big windows and natural light.

absolutely

The new coffee shop in town is absolutely great for studying.

Definitions

adj

Taking much space; large.

“[…] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes like // Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer, / With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer.[…]”

‘Children crawled over each other like little grey worms in the gutters,’ he said. ‘The only red things about them were their buttocks and they were raw. Their faces looked as if snails had slimed on them and their mothers were like great sick beasts whose byres had never been cleared.[…]’

Taking much space; large.

great worry

“We are engaged in a great work, a treatise on our river fortifications, perhaps? But since when did army officers afford the luxury of amanuenses in this simple republic?”

Taking much space; large.

a dirty great smack in the face

Great Scott!

Very good; excellent; wonderful; fantastic.

Dinner was great.

He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights,[…], the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.

Important, consequential.

a great dilemma

a great decision

intj

Expression of gladness and content about something.

Great! Thanks for the wonderful work.

—I am in my new apartment! —Great!

A sarcastic inversion thereof.

Oh, great! I just dumped all 500 sheets of the manuscript all over and now I have to put them back in order.

noun

A person of major significance, accomplishment or acclaim.

Newton and Einstein are two of the greats of the history of science.

Sadio Mané wasted a glorious chance in the first half and, late on, Mohamed Salah turned his shot against a post after a goal-line clearance had spun his way. That, in a nutshell, perhaps sums up the difference between Messi and the players on the next rung below – the ones who can be described as great footballers without necessarily being football greats.

The main division in a pipe organ, usually the loudest division.

An instance of the word "great" signifying an additional generation in phrases expressing family relationships.

My three-greats grandmother.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

adjective — very good

adjective — of major significance or importance

outstanding

adjective — uppercase

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

great minds think alike

Used to remark upon the fact that someone else has had the same thought or idea as you, implying that both of you are clever or astute.

Person A: He looks a bit like David Beckham...

great unwashed

The general populace, particularly the working class.

[T]he gentlemen of the inns of court, and the gentlemen of the universities… live in abodes which were erected long before the custom of cleanliness and decency obtained among us.

go to great lengths

To make a major effort; to be very careful when doing something, especially to an extreme or excessive degree.

The most surprising thing was to discover that each job had its little tricks, peculiarities that had been learned in the experience of years, and one of the really pleasing featur

no great shakes

Something unexceptional, not noteworthy or special.

You're welcome to stay here, but this hut ain't no great shakes for such as you.

a great deal

Very much; to a great extent; a lot; lots.

We had a great deal more money after winning the lottery.

Example Bank

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Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe. Some call it geoeconomics, but it's geopolitics too. The current power play consists of a

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Great! Thanks for the wonderful work.

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—I am in my new apartment! —Great!

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Oh, great! I just dumped all 500 sheets of the manuscript all over and now I have to put them back in order.

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Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, great is marked as informal, British. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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