- A person who has achieved distinction and honor in some field.
- usage: "he is one of the greats of American music"
- Relatively large in size or number or extent; larger than others of its kind.
- usage: "a great juicy steak"; "a great multitude"; "the great auk"; "a great old oak"; "a great ocean liner"; "a great delay"
- Of major significance or importance.
- usage: "a great work of art"; "Einstein was one of the outstanding figures of the 20th centurey"
- synonyms: outstanding
- Remarkable or out of the ordinary in degree or magnitude or effect.
- usage: "a great crisis"; "had a great stake in the outcome"
- Very good.
- usage: "he did a bully job"; "a neat sports car"; "had a great time at the party"; "you look simply smashing"
- usage: "capital A"; "great A"; "many medieval manuscripts are in majuscule script"
- In an advanced stage of pregnancy.
- usage: "was big with child"; "was great with child"
by WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
- (superl.) Large in number; numerous; as, a great company, multitude, series, etc.
- (superl.) Long continued; lengthened in duration; prolonged in time; as, a great while; a great interval.
- (superl.) More than ordinary in degree; very considerable in degree; as, to use great caution; to be in great pain.
- (superl.) Pregnant; big (with young).
- (superl.) Superior; admirable; commanding; -- applied to thoughts, actions, and feelings.
- (n.) The whole; the gross; as, a contract to build a ship by the great.
- (superl.) Endowed with extraordinary powers; uncommonly gifted; able to accomplish vast results; strong; powerful; mighty; noble; as, a great hero, scholar, genius, philosopher, etc.
- (superl.) Older, younger or more remote, by single generation; -- often used before grand to indicate one degree more remote in the direct line of descent; as, great-grandfather (a grandfather's or a grandmother's father), great-grandson, etc.
- (superl.) Large in space; of much size; big; immense; enormous; expanded; -- opposed to small and little; as, a great house, ship, farm, plain, distance, length.
- (superl.) Entitled to earnest consideration; weighty; important; as, a great argument, truth or principle.
- (superl.) Holding a chief position; elevated: lofty: eminent; distingushed; foremost; principal; as, great men; the great seal; the great marshal, etc.
by Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary