VAST

a. n.

5 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Waste; desert; desolate; lonely. [Obs.] The empty, vast, and wandering air. Shak.

2.
a.

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.
a.

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

4.
a.

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

5.
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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