The meaning of GREAT is notably large in size : huge. How to use great in a sentence.

GREAT definition: 1. large in amount, size, or degree: 2. used in names, especially to mean large or important: 3…. Learn more.

1. a. Very large in size, extent, or intensity: a great pile of rubble; a great storm. b. Of a larger size than other, similar forms: the great anteater. c. Large in quantity or number: A great throng awaited us. …

Discover everything about the word "GREAT" in English: meanings, translations, synonyms, pronunciations, examples, and grammar insights - all in one comprehensive guide.

When the reference is to degree or a quality, great is the usual word: great beauty; great mistake; great surprise; although big sometimes alternates with it in colloquial style: a big mistake; a big surprise;

1 day ago · Some intensifiers can be used with some senses of great; for example, a very great amount, a very great man, the party was really great, though not *the party was very great.

Synonyms for GREAT: excellent, wonderful, terrific, awesome, fantastic, superb, lovely, beautiful; Antonyms of GREAT: terrible, poor, awful, lousy, pathetic, atrocious, bad, rotten

GREAT definition: 1. very good: 2. important or famous: 3. large in amount, size, or degree: . Learn more.

Great means large in amount or degree. I'll take great care of it. Benjamin Britten did not live to a great age. You use great to describe something that is important, famous, or exciting. ...the great cultural …

(Definition of great from the Cambridge Essential Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)