Definition/Meaning of great

• English - Adjective: great ( comparative greater , superlative greatest ) Very big , large scale . A great storm is approaching our shores . Very good . Dinner was great . Important . William Shakespeare (1564-1616) He doth object I am too great of birth . 1915 , Emerson Hough , The Purchase Price , chapterI: “[…] We are engaged in a great work , a treatise on our river fortifications , perhaps? But since when did…
• English - Interjection: great Expression of gladness and content about something . Great! Thanks for the wonderful work . 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 . Translations
• English - Noun: great ( plural greats ) A person of major significance , accomplishment or acclaim . Newton and Einstein are two of the greats of the history of science . ( typographically plural , grammatically singular proper noun ) A course of academic study devoted to the works of such persons and also known as Literae Humaniores ; the "Greats" name has official status with respect to Oxford University's…
• English - Adverb: great ( not comparable ) very well ( in a very satisfactory manner ) Those mechanical colored pencils work great because they don't have to be sharpened . Translations Derived terms greatly greatness
• English - Etymology: From Middle English greet ( “ great , large ” ), from Old English grēat ( “ big , thick , coarse , stour , massive ” ), from Proto-Germanic *grautaz ( “ big in size , coarse , coarse grained ” ), from Proto-Indo-European *ghrewə- ( “ to fell , put down , fall in ” ). Cognate with Scots great ( “ coarse in grain or texture , thick , great ” ), West Frisian grut ( “ large , great ” ), Dutch groot…