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Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source - Share This
vast       [vast, vahst] Pronunciation Key adjective, -er, -est, noun
–adjective
1.of very great area or extent; immense: the vast reaches of outer space.
2.of very great size or proportions; huge; enormous: vast piles of rubble left in the wake of the war.
3.very great in number, quantity, amount, etc.: vast sums of money.
4.very great in degree, intensity, etc.: an artisan of vast skill.
–noun
5.Literary. an immense or boundless expanse or space.

[Origin: 1565–75; < L vastus empty, immense]

vastly, adverb
vastness, noun

1. measureless, boundless, gigantic, colossal, stupendous.
1. small.
American Heritage Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
vast       (vāst)  Pronunciation Key 
adj.   vast·er, vast·est
  1. Very great in size, number, amount, or quantity.
  2. Very great in area or extent; immense.
  3. Very great in degree or intensity. See Synonyms at enormous.

n.   Archaic
An immense space.


[Latin vāstus.]

vast'ly adv., vast'ness n.
Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
vast 
1575, from M.Fr. vaste, from L. vastus "immense, extensive, huge," also "desolate, unoccupied, empty." The two meanings probably originally attached to two separate words, one with a long -a- one with a short -a-, that merged in early Latin (see waste). Very popular early 18c. as an intensifier.

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vast

adjective
unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope; "huge government spending"; "huge country estates"; "huge popular demand for higher education"; "a huge wave"; "the Los Angeles aqueduct winds like an immense snake along the base of the mountains"; "immense numbers of birds"; "at vast (or immense) expense"; "the vast reaches of outer space"; "the vast accumulation of knowledge...which we call civilization"- W.R.Inge [syn: huge

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Vast

Vast\, a. [Compar. Vaster; superl. Vastest.] [L. vastus empty, waste, enormous, immense: cf. F. vaste. See Waste, and cf. Devastate.]

1. Waste; desert; desolate; lonely. [Obs.]

The empty, vast, and wandering air. --Shak.

2. Of great extent; very spacious or large; also, huge in bulk; immense; enormous; as, the vast ocean; vast mountains; the vast empire of Russia.

Through the vast and boundless deep. --Milton.

3. Very great in numbers, quantity, or amount; as, a vast army; a vast sum of money.

4. Very great in importance; as, a subject of vast concern.

Syn: Enormous; huge; immense; mighty.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Vast

Vast\, n. A waste region; boundless space; immensity. "The watery vast." --Pope.

Michael bid sound The archangel trumpet. Through the vast of heaven It sounded. --Milton.

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