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Vast

//væst//

Definitions

1
Very large or wide (literally or figuratively).
The Sahara desert is vast.
2
Very great in size, amount, degree, intensity, or especially extent.
The exiguity and ſmallneſſe of ſome ſeeds extending to large productions is one of the magnalities of nature, ſomewhat illuſtrating the work of the Creation, and vaſt production from nothing.
3
Waste; desert; desolate; lonely.
the empty, vast, and wandering air

1
A vast space.
they have seemed to be together, though absent, shook hands, as over a vast, and embraced, as it were, from the ends of opposed winds.

Word Origin

From Middle French vaste, from Latin vastus (“void, immense”). Related to waste and German Wüste.

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//væst//

1
Very large or wide (literally or figuratively).
The Sahara desert is vast.
2
Very great in size, amount, degree, intensity, or especially extent.
The exiguity and ſmallneſſe of ſome ſeeds extending to large productions is one of the magnalities of nature, ſomewhat illuſtrating the work of the Creation, and vaſt production from nothing.
3
Waste; desert; desolate; lonely.
the empty, vast, and wandering air

1
A vast space.
they have seemed to be together, though absent, shook hands, as over a vast, and embraced, as it were, from the ends of opposed winds.

Word Origin

From Middle French vaste, from Latin vastus (“void, immense”). Related to waste and German Wüste.

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