LekhoriLekhoriTaking 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.[…]”
Very good; excellent; wonderful; fantastic.
Dinner was great.
Important, consequential.
a great dilemma
Expression of gladness and content about something.
Great! Thanks for the wonderful work.
A sarcastic inversion thereof.
A person of major significance, accomplishment or acclaim.
Newton and Einstein are two of the greats of the history of science.
The main division in a pipe organ, usually the loudest division.
Very well (in a very satisfactory manner).
Those mechanical colored pencils work great because they don’t have to be sharpened.
From Middle English greet (“great, large”), from Old English grēat (“big, thick, coarse, massive”), from Proto-West Germanic *graut, from Proto-Germanic *grautaz (“big in size, coarse, coarse grained”...
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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.
An instance of the word "great" signifying an additional generation in phrases expressing family relationships.
My three-greats grandmother.